諸城邱公為遵化道。署中故多狐，最後一樓，綏綏者族而居之，以為家。時出殃人，遣之益熾。官此者惟設牲禱之，無敢迕。邱公蒞任，聞而怒之。狐亦畏公剛烈，化一嫗告家人曰：「幸白大人：勿相仇。容我三日，將攜細小避去。」公聞，亦默不言。次日，閱兵已，戒勿散，使盡扛諸營巨炮驟入，環樓千座併發；數仞之樓，頃刻摧為平地，革肉毛血，自天雨而下。但見濃塵毒霧之中，有白氣一縷，冒煙沖空而去。眾望之曰：「逃一狐矣。」而署中自此平安。
诸城邱公为遵化道。署中故多狐，最后一楼，绥绥者族而居之，以为家。时出殃人，遣之益炽。官此者惟设牲祷之，无敢迕。邱公莅任，闻而怒之。狐亦畏公刚烈，化一妪告家人曰：「幸白大人：勿相仇。容我三日，将携细小避去。」公闻，亦默不言。次日，阅兵已，戒勿散，使尽扛诸营巨炮骤入，环楼千座并发；数仞之楼，顷刻摧为平地，革肉毛血，自天雨而下。但见浓尘毒雾之中，有白气一缕，冒烟冲空而去。众望之曰：「逃一狐矣。」而署中自此平安。
Lord Qiu of Zhucheng served as circuit intendant at Zunhua. His yamen had long been full of foxes. In the rearmost tower the slow-padding creatures lived together as a clan and made it their home. From time to time they came out and brought misfortune on people, and every attempt to drive them out only made them worse. The officials posted there could do nothing but set out sacrificial animals and pray to them; none dared cross them. When Lord Qiu took up his post and heard of this, he was angry. The foxes, for their part, feared his hard and fierce temper. One of them took the form of an old woman and said to someone of his household, “Please tell His Excellency: let there be no feud between us. Give me three days, and I will take my little ones and go elsewhere.” Qiu heard it and said nothing. The next day, when he had finished reviewing the troops, he ordered them not to disperse. He had them haul in all the great cannon from every camp at once, set a thousand of them in a ring round the tower and fire them all together. In an instant the tower, many fathoms high, was smashed flat to the ground. Hide and flesh, fur and blood rained down from the sky. Then, in the thick dust and poisonous smoke, a single wisp of white vapour was seen to break out through the smoke and rush away into the sky. Everyone watched it go. “One fox has got away,” they said. And from then on there was peace in the yamen.
後二年，公遣幹僕賷銀如干數赴都，將謀遷擢。事未就，姑窖藏于班役之家。忽有一叟詣闕聲屈，言妻子橫被殺戮，又訐公克削軍糧，夤緣當路，現頓某家，可以驗證。奉旨押驗，至班役家，冥搜不得。叟惟以一足點地。悟其意，發之，果得金；金上鐫有「某郡解」字。已而覓叟，則失所在。執鄉里姓名以求其人，竟亦無之。公由此罹難，乃知叟即逃狐也。
后二年，公遣干仆賷银如干数赴都，将谋迁擢。事未就，姑窖藏于班役之家。忽有一叟诣阙声屈，言妻子横被杀戮，又讦公克削军粮，夤缘当路，现顿某家，可以验证。奉旨押验，至班役家，冥搜不得。叟惟以一足点地。悟其意，发之，果得金；金上镌有「某郡解」字。已而觅叟，则失所在。执乡里姓名以求其人，竟亦无之。公由此罹难，乃知叟即逃狐也。
Two years later Qiu sent a capable servant to the capital with a certain sum of silver, meaning to angle for a promotion. Before the business was settled, the silver was buried for the time being at the house of a yamen runner. Suddenly an old man came to the palace gates crying injustice. He said his wife and children had been wantonly slaughtered. He also accused Qiu of skimming the soldiers’ grain and of buying favour with men in power: the silver, he said, was lying at such-and-such a house at that very moment, and could be checked. By imperial order he was taken under escort to prove it. At the runner’s house they searched high and low and found nothing. The old man only tapped the ground with one foot. They understood, dug there, and sure enough found the silver. Cut into it were the words “Remitted by such-and-such prefecture.” Afterwards they looked for the old man, but he was nowhere to be found. They went by the village and name he had given to look for him, but there was no such person. This brought disaster on Qiu, and only then did people know that the old man was the fox that had escaped.
異史氏曰：「狐之祟人，可誅甚矣。然服而舍之，亦以全吾仁。公可云「疾之已甚」者矣。抑使關西為此，豈百狐所能仇哉！」
异史氏曰：「狐之祟人，可诛甚矣。然服而舍之，亦以全吾仁。公可云「疾之已甚」者矣。抑使关西为此，岂百狐所能仇哉！」
The Historian of the Strange says: Foxes that plague people fully deserve to die. But when they submit, letting them go is also how we keep our own humanity whole. Lord Qiu may be called one who “hated them too much.” And yet, had the man from West of the Pass done this, how could even a hundred foxes have taken revenge on him!