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When a fox is first found, every one ought to keep behind the 

 hounds till they are well settled to the scent ; and when the 

 hounds are catching him, they ought to be as silent as possible ; 

 and eat him eagerly after he is caught. In some places they have 

 a method of treeing him ; that is, throwing him across the branch 

 of a tree, and suffering the hounds to bay at him for some minutes 

 before he is thrown amcngst them ; the intention of which is to 

 make them more eager, and to let in the tail-hounds ; during this 

 mterval also they recover their wind, and are apt to eat him more 

 readily. Our author, however, advises not to keep. him too long, 

 as he supposes that the hounds have not any appetite to eat him 

 longer than while they are angry with him. 



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Hunting the fox under ground. In case a fox escape so as to 

 earth, countrymen must be got together with shovels, spades, pick- 

 axes, &c., to dig him out, if they think the earth not too great. 

 They make their earths as near as they can in ground that is 

 hard to lig, as in clay, stony ground, or amongst the roots of 

 trees ; and their earths have commonly but one hole, and that is 

 straight and a long way in before you come at their couch. 

 Sometimes they take possession of a badger's old burrow, which 

 has a variety of chambers, holes, and angles. 



To facilitate this way of hunting the fox, the huntsman must 

 be provided with one or two terriers " to put into the earth after 

 him, that is, to fix him into an angle ; for the earth often consists 

 of many angles ; the use of the terrier is to know where he lies ; 

 for as soon as he finds him, he continues baying or barking, so 

 Shat which way the noise is heard that way dig to him. Youi 



