HUNTING ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTER X. 



HUNTING THE FOX. 



OX-HUNTING is so common and has so 

 long prevailed in England, that the term 

 "fox-hunting squire" was supposed to 

 be sufficiently accurate for describing an 

 English country gentleman until a recent 

 period. It was the universal passion of 

 the English rural gentry of the last 

 century; and it is still regarded among 

 a certain class as by far the most delight- 

 ful and exciting of all the sports of the field. 



Our old friend already quoted treats the art and mystery of Fox 

 Hunting with his accustomed gravity and earnestness. 



Hunting the fox, he says, makes a very pleasant exercise, and 

 is either above or below ground. 



Hunting the fox above ground. To hunt a fox with hounds, 

 you must draw about gr.oves, thickets, and bushes near villages 

 When you find one, stop up his earth the night before you design 

 to hunt, about midnight ; while he is out to prev. This ma\ lie 



