Speaking of foxes ...

[Krafft, John M.]

Has anyone mention (in relation to Pointsman's rather than Spectro's
idea of a fox) the fox in John Hawkes's _Cannibal_ (1949)? Consider
just this first mention: "The Duke, shortening the pace, picked his
way carefully by the cliff of fallen walls and poked with his cane
into the dark crevices, hoping to stick the crouched body of his prey,
to light upon the thin fox" (24). The fox is, of course, a small boy,
whom the Duke stalks, kills, dismembers and cooks. The novel has
flashbacks to the First World War, but the hunt occurs in the novel's
present, 1945, in occupied Germany.

John
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