I have been an avid reader pretty much all of my life. In the book, local children sing the following verse (a limerick) to taunt the three farmers:īoggis and Bunce and Bean One fat, one short, one lean These horrible crooks So different in looks Were nonetheless equally mean.Well, we could hardly have a Fox-Week without including by far the best foxy book ever written… could we? The book ends with the indication the three will be waiting forever. Meanwhile, Boggis, Bunce, and Bean keep guard on the tunnel entrance in pouring rain, unaware that Mr Fox and his friends are stealing their food right under their noses. At the feast, the animals decide to make an underground town where they will be safe, while discreetly obtaining food from the farmers. Mr Fox, feeling responsible for the whole affair, invites the other animals to a feast made from the loot. They also raid Bunce's storehouse of ducks, geese and vegetables as well as Bean's underground cellar of cider.Īlong the way, the foxes meet Badger and other digging animals who are also starving due to the farmers' siege of the hillside. There, they steal some chickens and depart without leaving any sign of their presence. He and his children dig a tunnel into Boggis' chicken house.

The three men therefore decide to watch the entrance to the fox tunnel with shotguns at the ready, while the farmers' men patrol the area to make sure the foxes do not escape.Īfter three days of starving, Mr Fox comes up with a plan. The farmers then use bulldozers in order to dig deeper into the ground, but to no avail. However, Mr and Mrs Fox and their four children escape by digging a tunnel deeper into the ground. ĭetermined to catch him, the farmers use spades and shovels to dig their way into the foxes' home. However, the farmers only succeed in blowing off Mr Fox's tail.

When Mr Fox emerges from his home, the farmers fire at him. One night, the farmers wait outside Mr Fox's foxhole in an attempt to ambush him. The farmers are fed up with Mr Fox's theft and try to kill him.

These horrible crooks, So different in looks, Were none the less equally mean. Boggis and Bunce and Bean, One fat, one short, one lean. In order to feed his family, Mr Fox steals chickens, ducks, and turkeys, each night from three mean and wealthy farmers: Boggis, Bunce,and Bean. Fox is a book written by Roald Dahl in 1970.

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