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foxes. . . . With respect to the digging of 

 foxes which hounds run to ground, if the hole be 

 straight and earth slight, follow it, and in following 

 the hole, by keeping below its level, it cannot be 

 lost ; but in a strong earth it is best to let the terrier 

 fix the fox in an angle of it, and a pit be then sunk 

 as near to him as can be. A terrier should always 

 be kept at the fox, who otherwise may move, and in 

 loose ground dig himself further in ; in digging keep 

 plenty of room, and take care to throw the earth 

 where it may not have to be moved again. Hunts- 

 men, when near the fox, will sometimes put a hound 

 into the earth to draw him ; this answers no other 

 purpose than to cause the dog a bad bite, which a 

 few minutes' more labour would render unnecessary; 

 or, if the fox must be drawn by a hound, first intro- 

 duce a whip, which the fox will seize, and the hound 

 will then draw him out more readily." 



The " Sportsman's Cabinet," published in two 

 volumes in 1803-4, two years after the first volume 

 of Daniel's " Rural Sports " appeared, contains an 

 engraving by Scott from a spirited painting by 

 Reinagle. Here we have three terriers, one of 

 which is white, with marks on his head and a patch 

 at the set on of stern. This is a wire-haired dog, 

 with a docked tail and erect ears, showing traces of 

 a bull-terrier cross from the shape of the skull and 



