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Transcription
February 5 1927
I took my light and went up in mountains to hunt but upon arriving their the clouds we drift ing over them and was of a very thick fog which was impossible for light to penetrate to see only a few feet ahead of you so I came back down in a large ditch below clouds and hunted back to the house. on way back I saw some eyes for just a second and then they were gone, then about 200 yards further up the hill I saw them again for a second and then they were gone. I kept on going down the ditch and I came over a little raise and their were the eyes again but was gone before I could shoot then again they appeared in a corn field across ditch from me here I shot it, it being about 50 yds from me upon reaching it I found it was a large male fox that is no 1245-2