Forest spirits and foxes.  From Jugend, 1924.

Here's a surprising benefit to wearing Groucho-style glasses in the field.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.  Here's my very modest collection of vintage Groucho glasses precursors.

"Grasped something -- it was something hairy."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.

Here's a precursor to Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and Acme inventions.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.

Fire, the outlaw.  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.

From an ad in The Sketch, 1911.

"The hunting moon," from English Illustrated, 1900.

"The fox turned piper."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.

Here's how to sing "Fox fox fox."   From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.

"Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox alone on a hillside."  From Popular Mechanics, 1913.

From Punch, 1863.

A fox brings a pig a leg of pork -- another in the bizarre tradition of animals depicted as cannibals.  From Fun magazine, 1886.