The Ballad of Cocky the Fox so far: Cocky the fox, a handsome specimen of Vulpes vulpes living on the edge of an English town, is in trouble. His mentor Holiday Bob, top fox in the Borough, is dead. His family life has collapsed, and he’s moved in with his friend Champion, a distressed albino rabbit. His enemies are everywhere. And he’s been drinking a lot of aftershave.
In Fit the Fourth, Cocky sold the cat French Edward some aftershave — this, despite his having been ordered by Billy Five Wives to stop dealing; he reminisced about wooing his vixen, Nora, but also recalled the night when she threw him out of their den and he moved in with Champion; he woke up to find the hutch surrounded by marauding rats — whose ever-changing constellation of gangs, their forms and norms, amuse him; and he sallied forth to do battle.
The Sniffer Issue No. Four accompanies Fit the Fourth of The Ballad of Cocky the Fox. It features marriage, jackals, pork pies and William Caxton. It can be downloaded from here.