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terriers must be garnished with bells hung in collars, to make the 

 fox bolt the sooner ; besides, the collars will be some small defenc 

 to the terriers. The instruments to dig withal are these ; a sharp 

 pointed spade, which serves to begin the trench where the ground 

 is hardest, and broader tools will not so well enter; the round, 

 hollowed spade, which is useful to dig among roots, having very 

 sharp edges; the broad, flat spade to dig withal, when the. trench 

 has been pretty well opened, and the ground softer ; mattock i 

 and pickaxes to dig in hard ground, where a spade will do but 

 little service ; the coal-rake to cleanse the hole, and to keep it 

 from stopping up ; clamps, wherewith you may take either fox or 

 badger out alive to make some sport with afterwards. And it 

 would be very convenient to have a pail of water to refresh your 

 f *rners with, after they have come out of the earth to take breath 



AN ENGLISH HUNTS*. 



