EARTH STOPPING, ARTIFICIAI. EARTHS. &c. 



after hesitating for a second, dropped over the 

 edge, and landed square on top of the scrub- 

 covered crack. As the dog's feet went through 

 the covering, the " fur began to fly." Sure 

 enough Reynard was there completely hidden, and 

 he was not long in letting the terrier know all 

 about it. It happened to be the terrier's first 

 real encounter with a fox, and when the latter 

 sent his white teeth home, the dog drew back. 

 The fox then appeared on a narrow ledge below, 

 from whence he looked up at me, where I blocked 

 his egress from above. He then turned round, 

 and half slid and half fell down the crag-face to the 

 ground. The terrier eventually took the same 

 route, and I ran down by an easier descent and 

 laid on the hounds, as the fox with the terrier not 

 far behind him crossed the rough breast below. 

 The fox was dead beat, the first quick burst in the 

 morning having been too much for him. To cut 

 a long story short, hounds ran him across the dale, 

 and he went to ground under a boulder, from which 

 he was finally ejected and killed. He was a very 

 fat fox, and not in hard condition, as a subsequent 

 post mortem proved. 



Some years ago, near a certain Yorkshire village, 

 a fox had been doing a good deal of damage 

 amongst the poultry. One evening, by a lucky 

 chance, the wife of one of the poultry owners 

 saw a fox enter a hen-house, and she promptly 

 dropped the slide-door and made Reynard pris- 

 oner. On informing her husband of the fact, 

 that worthy sent for one of his friends, who was 

 the owner of a newly-bought terrier with a great 

 reputation against foxes. Arming themselves 

 with a stout sack, and whistling to the dog, the 

 two made their way to the hut containing the 

 fox. The slide-door was carefully lifted, and 



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