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he thinks best, without interference or advice, but the 

 majority like to study the wishes of covert owners, 

 when the latter are only anxious to produce foxes 

 that win give good runs. 



The education of hounds in working thick covert, 

 must, of course, not be neglected, but in the endeavour 

 to attain that object it is sometimes forgotten the 

 equally important lesson foxes have to be taught. 

 This is to seek safety in flight by immediately facing 

 the open. You may call it reason or what you hke, 

 but a fox is quite capable of putting two and two 

 together, so that when he finds he can escape hounds 

 after being turned back into covert, he will be likely 

 to consider himself safer there than in the open. Those 

 that are kiUed are, unfortunately, unable to benefit 

 by their experience. 



