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September 17th is National Fox Day! To celebrate these beautiful animals and the love they inspire, here is the opening extract from the chapter 'Pumpkin Eyes' from Carly Holmes's exquisite collection of nature essays Love Letters on the River:     Pumpkin Eyes The young vixen appeared late one spring. She unfolded herself from the flower bed and sat slouched on her haunches, yawning and eyeing me as I wandered up the garden path with the birds’ food. I stopped and stared. ‘Hello,’ I said. ‘You’ve flattened my aquilegias. They’re not coming back from that.’ She inserted a paw into...