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 "title": "Fox Hunt Yarn",
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 "poet": "James McIntyre",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
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  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
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  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
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    "text": "This my adventure is no hoax;",
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    "text": "I mounted horse to hunt a fox,",
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   {
    "text": "The cunning beast got into cover,",
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    "text": "Hunting him we rode all over.",
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    "text": "But my fine horse he stumbling fell",
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   {
    "text": "Down to the bottom of the well,",
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   {
    "text": "And thus the noble beast was slain.",
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   {
    "text": "My comrades scattered o’er the plain,",
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   {
    "text": "Knew not that in the depths profound",
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   },
   {
    "text": "I was in deep hole underground;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "While o’er broad fields they proudly course,",
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   {
    "text": "I was laying on my dead horse.",
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   {
    "text": "And from thence did often yell,",
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    "text": "But no one came near to that well;",
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   {
    "text": "The carcass soon it did ferment,",
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    "text": "And from it there went a strong scent,",
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    "text": "Which attracted flock of buzzards,",
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    "text": "And down they came to fill their gizzards;",
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   {
    "text": "Around four of them I did cling,",
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    "text": "And made them fly aloft on wing.",
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    "text": "But they flew higher than I wanted,",
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    "text": "Though T was still quite undaunted;",
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   {
    "text": "I first let one buzzard slip,",
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    "text": "Then another on downward trip,",
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    "text": "’Till I arrived all safe and sound,",
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    "text": "Without a scratch on solid ground,",
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    "text": "But now no man can ever coax",
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    "text": "Me to go hunting of a fox.",
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