i88 REV. JOHN RUSSELL. 



and in and around that earth they remained, 

 being ear-marked, and thriving well, till the 

 following October, when suddenly they dis- 

 appeared, and I never had the good luck to 

 find one of them again with hounds. 



"Slv years aftenvards, I met the late Mr. 

 Newton, of Bridestowe, in Barnstaple, and he 

 asked me if I had ever ear-marked — describing 

 the mark — any foxes and lost sight of them. 



"'Yes,' I said; 'four cubs, all vixens.' 

 'Then,' he replied, 'I found them last March 

 in some brakes near Broadwood-Widger, twenty- 

 five miles below Halsdon ; had good runs with 

 each, and killed all four.'" 



