Fox quotes from The Animals of Farthing Wood

Vixen

Bold! Oh my Bold...

Bold

Mother? Is it... you?

Vixen

Yes... and your father, he's here too.

Bold

Dad...

Fox

Hello son. Your mate told us where to find you. I gather we've got your cubs to look forward to soon! You son of a gun!

Bold

That's alright then... thanks Dad...

Fox

Yes, they'll be fine. Son... I'm sorry I was hard on you. Can you forgive me? You're the bravest fox I've ever met... I'm proud of you...

Bold

(last lines) Ah... (he sighs contentedly and expires)

Fox

You're too late.

Charmer

Ranger too has had his loss. Adder has killed his father.

Fox

So, someone else did the job for me? Perhaps it's just as well. (to Ranger) Do you still want Charmer to be your mate?

Fox

Then who am I to stand in your way? Perhaps your union will bring peace to both our families. A new beginning for all of us!

Fox

[as Plucky and Dash race] Once upon a time I was the fastest fox of them all. Now out of all the foxes in White Deer Park I'm the slowest.

Vixen

If it wasn't for you fox, there would be no red foxes left alive in White Deer Park to race Hares on a spring morning. Not to mention all the other animals. You've saved us all from one thing or another so many times.

Toad

You said I was mad didn't you fox, because I'd said I'd seen rats.

Fox

I'm very sorry, Toad. Obviously your not mad.

Toad

I'm not mad! [laughs hysterically]

Fox

[about the rats] Remember, there's too many of them to make this an all-out fight. Just kill about... 6 each.

Ranger

10!

Fox

6! We'll come back again tomorrow night, and again the next, and again, and again, if necessary.

Ranger

I'm gonna kill ten!

Bully

Oh I am frightened. [laughs] Look here foxy face, I didn't come here to kill you this time. Just a nice friendly visit to tell you to clear off! You and your whole lot both clear off! You got it or else see!

Fox

We're not clearing off, we'll fight you.

Did you win?

Vixen

I think we won, didn't we fox?

Fox

No we didn't win.

Ranger

We did win, we did! The Badgers must have killed fifty rats each! And Adder, and Sinuous, they were magnificent!

Fox

It doesn't matter how many times we attack Bully and his rats, we will never be able to kill enough of them.

Whisper

Oh I'm sure we will.

Charmer

Yes, of course we will. [licks right paw as it's been bitten by rats]

Fox

[shakes head] There's too many of them, and more all the time. Every hole in the forest has a rat's nest in it. Litters of healthy new young, born every few minutes. They grow to fighting size between one full moon and the next. More, more all the time.

Fox

I know, what if us foxes were to stand guard around the pond? There's not enough of us to save all the frogs but it might make a difference.

Toad

Yes, yes, ah, ha. Thank you Fox.

Fox

[yet another frog is easily taken] They don't do much to help themselves do they.

[in a rush] Fox has...ah! [notices who she's telling message to] You've called a meeting.

Fox

Thank you for telling me Dash.

Fox

As senior fox and leader of the animals who came here from Farthing Wood, it gives me the greatest pleasure to formally acknowledge you, Laird as the leader of all the animals in the park. Well done.

Thank you foxes, and thank you for cheering me. We shall be friends you and I, just as you and my grandfather the Great White Stag were friends. We shall all live together peacefully and in friendship.

Hurkel

I didn't say you were irritating.

Mossy

Yes, you did!

Hurkel

I just said I find it irritating when you eat worms while sitting on my back. That's not unreasonable, is it, Vixen?

Vixen

Well...

Mossy

You want me to starve, that's it! Has there ever been a more cruel badger?

Hurkel

But I'm kind!

Mossy

Are not!

Shadow

Are those two arguing again?

Vixen

I think so.

Mossy

He's cruel!

Hurkel

Oh... I'm very sorry.

Mossy

Say that you are an unkind, horrible, smelly badger!

Hurkel

Yes, alright, I am.

Mossy

I forgive you! [climbs on Hurkel's back]

Hurkel

Oh, moles...

Fox

[yawns] What about them?

Hurkel

[whispers] They're irritating.

Mossy

I heard that!

Plucky

Well Bully, have you had enough now?

Fox

You've had your chance, and we've beaten you. Make your choice: You can gather what's left of your rats together, and leave the park, or we'll keep on fighting until there's not a rat left alive.

Spike

Uhhh... except me.

Fox

Except you, Spike.