Fox and Geese
a favorite parlor game. It is played by two players. One manages the fox; the other has thirteen geese. The board is marked with a diagram having the shape of a Greek cross. Fox and geese may move in any direction backward, forward, or diagonally, from one intersection to another. The geese advance one at a time toward the fox. For each move of a goose the fox is entitled to a move. If at any time the fox occupies a space next a goose, and the space beyond the goose is vacant, the fox may jump over the goose and thus remove that goose from the board. The object of the geese is to pen the fox up in a corner, so that he can neither jump nor move. The object of the fox is to carry off, that is, to jump, so many geese that his imprisonment becomes impracticable. Bernacle goose. Canada goose. Geese Domestic goose. Geese Geese
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Fox Family
(See Spiritualism .)
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Fox Hound
a hound kept and trained for hunting foxes. They are smaller than the staghound, averaging 22 to 24 inches in height. They vary very much in color. They possess a very fine scent, great fleetness and endurance.
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Fox, John William
John William (1863-), an American novelist. He is a native of Kentucky and received his education at Harvard University . He has displayed special skill in depicting life in the vicinity of the Cumberland Mountains. His novels include The Kentuckians, A Mountain Europa, A Cumberland Vendetta, Christmas Eve on Lonesome, and The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. The last mentioned story is probably the best known and most popular of Fox's novels. It is a Civil War story, presenting, with unusual clearness and attractiveness, the views of nobleminded participants on both sides. Mr. Fox has published an account of his experiences as a war correspondent in Following the Sun Flag.
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Fox, Sisters
Two American girls who in 1847 practically commenced the practice of spirit-rapping in Arcadia, New York . An account of their doings is given in the article (Spiritualism). They latterly became professional mediums; but were to a great extent discredited.
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Frackville
a borough of Pennsylvania, in Schuylkill co. It is on the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads. There are important coal mines in the neighborhood and coal mining is the chief industry. Pop. (1910) 3,118; (1920) 5,590.
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Fragarach (The Answerer)
In Irish legend a sword that it could pierce any mail. It was one of the magical gifts brought by Lugh from the Land of the Living.
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Fragonard
JEAN HONORÉ, a Grasse in Octo- French painter; born in Chardin and ber, 1732. He studied under academy Boucher; and, entering the 1752. schools, gained the prix de Rome in , he revisited_he In Italy-which, later by the works of was influenced mainly great Venetians; Tiepolo, the last of the illustrations for and he executed many Saint - Non's " Journey to Naples France, he 1765 received 2,400 francs from Louis commissioned XV. for his "Callirrhoé," tapestry; for reproduction in Gobelin to be academic, and began then he ceased true bent to be personal, to follow his himself by the art helped to be most of Venice and by the art of Rubens. He is well represented in the Louvre, most such typically in its La Caze collection by Bacchante Endormie" and works as " "La Chemise Enlevée." He died in Paris, Aug. 22, 1806.
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Frame
in engineering, the strong framework, outside the wheel, which supmachinery on the ports the boiler and axes of a locomotive engine.
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Framingham
a town in Middlesex river, and on co., Mass.; on the Sudbury the New York, New Haven, and Hartand Albany railford, and the Boston . roads; about 20 miles W. of Boston It Framingham, comprises the villages of Saxonville. South Framingham, and Normal Here are a high school, a State History School, Historical and Natural Reforma- Societies, the State Woman's savings tory, several National and , and banks, daily and weekly newspapers light plants. street railroad and electric woolen goods It has a large industry in . Pop. (1910) 12,948; (1920) 17,033.
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Frampton
SIR GEORGE JAMES. studied under a British sculptor. He Royal Acad- W. S. Frith and entered the in 1881. In 1887 he won emy schools Gold Medal and Travelling Studentship has won many medals and and since then . Has other honors in several countries and statues executed many memorials , Victoria for Calincluding that of Queen , Newcastlecutta, Southport, St. Helens and Leeds. Among on-Tyne, Winnipeg, terra-cotta decohis other works are the Club, Lonration on the Constitutional Glasgow Art don; the sculpture on the , London; Galleries and Lloyd's Register House, Moorgate the entrance to Electra at the en- Street, London; spandrels and Albert Mutrance of the Victoria , seum; figures on the spires of St. Mary's William Oxford; saints on the shrine of Cathedral; of Wykeham, Winchester lions at the British Museum; statues of ; Queen Mary at Calcutta and Delhi . Has Edith Cavell Memorial, London also designed many medals, including the British Coronation medal.
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Francis
AND FLETCHER, JOHN. FLETCHER, SIR LAZARUS, a British scientist. He was born at Salford, England, in 1854, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oxford University. In 1880 he became Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum and in 1882 Examiner for Natural Sciences Tripos, Cambridge. He is a member and official of many British and other scientific societies, societies, and was vice-p vice-president of the Royal Society (1910-1912.). His publications include: "Introduction to the Study of Meteorites," "Introduction to the Study of Minerals," "Introduction to the Study of Rocks," "The Optical Indicatrix," and papers on the crystallographical, physical, and mineralogical subjects and on meteorites.
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Francis of Assisi, Saint
Saint (1182-1226), a noted Italian monk. He was born at Assisi and, though a traveler, he died there. He was a man of oratorical ability and of fervent piety, "The John Wesley of the thirteenth century, whom the church did not cast out." He was moved by compassion for the misery of the inhabitants of the Italian town. He gathered a few friends about him, walked to Rome to secure the permission of Pope Innocent III, and organized the Franciscan order of friars, or brothers. They went forth two and two, clad in the garb of poverty. They were religious workers, and labored to heal both body and soul--to relieve misery. Francis was declared a saint by Gregory IX in 1288. October fourth, the anniversary of his death, is observed as the day of St. Francis.
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