11.   That fox was a bagman!

12.   Not long after the nomes moved into the quarry a fox was surprised and delighted to come across a couple of unwary berry-gatherers, which it ate.

13.   There was a fox looking down at them.

14.   A fox had been in the night and left footprints in the dew, right up to the kitchen wagon.

15.   Could be a fox, suggested Fairfax.

16.   We are told that foxes are vermin and it is necessary to hunt them down.

17.   The fox is him and the forest is like his life and everything going on around him.

18.   So the fox could be an image of himself.

19.   He says that the public will come to realise that foxes are a pest and need controlling.

20.   That the fox was exhausted is questionable for it did gain the cover of the woods and in all probability survived.