186 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



^^ Oh, shame, shame ! do not head him! do not mob 

 hmi!" ^' Mob " a fox who is no longer of any use as 

 far as showing sport across comitry goes ! — the word 

 is foolish so applied. The only use of that fox is, 

 to be given to the hounds ; they have worked for 

 him, and they want him. If you are so short of 

 foxes that you can't afford to kill one, why then, 

 for the sake of sport, you had better not go out ; but 

 if you have found a fox who won't run, or you have 

 well worked a fox who can't face the open any 

 more, why then aid the hounds to kill him, the 

 sooner the better, and later in the season spare the 

 vixens. 



If you have had enough of flying across country 

 with a good fox, the hounds ought to have as much 

 reward as the riders ; if you have only found a short 

 running idle fox, who won't go, but who is always 

 at his leisure behind the hounds, why then kill him 

 as soon as possible. As I have said before, a man 

 can't call his hounds off while they are on a bad short 

 running fox, the fox they are taking pains to hunt. 

 If he does call them off, the next fox who '^ hangs," 

 they will be inclined to leave of their own accord, 

 and you '11 have a country full of four-footed 

 animals who won't run, and are just as cunning as 



