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occasionally the result of such encounters. 

 Hence, Russell may well have been proud of the 

 pure pedigree he had so long possessed and so 

 carefully watched over. Tartars they were, and 

 ever have been, beyond all doubt ; going up 

 to their fox in any earth, facing him alternatelv 

 with hard words and harder nips, until at length 

 he is forced to quit his stronghold, and trust to 

 the open for better security. 



A fox thus bolted is rarely a pin the worse 

 for the skirmish ; he has had fair play given 

 him, and instead of being half strangled, is fit 

 to flee for his life. The hounds, too, have 

 their chance, and the field are not baulked of 

 their expected run. 



Russell's country is technically known as a 

 hollow one ; that is, a country in which rockv 

 fastnesses and earths, excavated by badgers, 

 abound in every direction. Consequently, on 

 every hunting day a terrier or two invariablv 

 accompanied him to the field ; and certainly no 

 general ever depended with more trust on the 

 services of an aidc-de-caiup than he on those of 

 his terriers. If in chase they could not always 

 live with the pack, still they stuck to the line, 

 and were sure to be there or thereabouts when 

 they were wanted, if the hounds threw up even 

 for a minute. 



" I like them to throw their tongue freely 

 when face to face with their enemy," said 



