FOXES FOXHOUNDS & FOX-HUNTING 



emanates from the metatarsal glands, situated 

 on each hind leg below the hock. The hair 

 around these glands is dark coloured, and the 

 smell is strong. 



From time to time, evil-smelling liquids have 

 been invented to prevent foxes taking partridges 

 during the nesting season. At first these were 

 attended with a certain amount of success, but 

 after certain foxes had investigated the new 

 aroma, they discovered the fact of its being con- 

 nected with sitting birds, and in many instances 

 they were guided by the smell and were thus 

 able to walk straight in and secure a substantial 

 feed. Although the fox is hardly so clever as 

 the fabulists would have us believe, he is no fool, 

 and he can put two and two together with the aid 

 of his keen nose and experience. In the * ' Master 

 of Game " it says : ' ' The hunting for a fox is fair 

 for the good cry of the hounds that follow him so 

 nigh and with so good a will. Always they 

 scent of him, for he flies through the thick wood 

 and also he stinketh evermore." Again with 

 regard to the fur of the fox, it says : ' ' The foxes' 

 skins be wonderfully warm to make cuffs and 

 furs, but they stink evermore if they are not well 

 tawed." 



When hunting with beagles, I have seen a hare 

 roll on manure-stained ground, and instances 

 have been recorded of foxes doing the same thing. 

 Both foxes and dogs have a habit of rolling on 

 carrion and other filth, and when a hunted animal 

 does this during the course of a run, its scent 

 is often obliterated by the smell of the foreign 

 matter. 



Foxes often take refuge in queer places when 

 hard run by hounds. I have known a fox to 

 enter a coal-shed, and another climbed on the 



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