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spot from whence the cries proceeded, I saw the animal, 

 which at once retreated to his Kula. I seated myself 

 down within range of this, and blew a little on my 

 L&rk-pipdj or lark-pipe, upon which he immediately 

 came out again, when I shot him. On another occa- 

 sion, when without a gun, and whilst lying concealed in 

 a thicket, I saw a half-grown fox pass within forty 

 paces of me. I blew my lark-pipe gently, on which he 

 came creeping directly towards me, and had advanced 

 to within some four or five paces, when he became aware 

 of my presence and fled. I have also heard other sports- 

 men relate, that when engaged in Lockning of young 

 birds, as also mallards, they have shot the fox with the 

 same device." 



We farther read : that "if at a late hour of the evening, 

 or very early in the morning, a fox is seen coming out 

 of the forest, and betaking himself to the fields, for the 

 purpose of capturing rats, and that one is quite certain 

 not to have been observed by the animal; as also that 

 the wind and other circumstances be favourable, it is not 

 difficult to shoot him by Lockning. The sportsman, in 

 this case, hides himself near to the path by which the 

 fox sallied forth to the open country ; but care must be 

 taken that the ambush be under the wind, or otherwise 

 Michel will get scent of him, in which case he well 

 knows how to avoid the danger. If the fox, when he 

 appears, should halt out of shot, and seems inclined 

 to take another course, he will allow himself, at a 

 distance of from two hundred to three hundred paces, 

 to be enticed within range, should the cries of a hare be 

 imitated ; or if the distance be less, one should squeak 



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