An historic board game is called Fox and Geese; it is often played with marbles. Here, however, is a card game with cards for both foxes and geese, but it lacks an instruction sheet. A similarly-titled game by another manufacturer from this period uses a spinner to determine which cards a player may keep as points. That may well be how this game was played.
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