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A HUNTING CATECHISM 



rabbits cannot scratch in, or foxes scratch out, as 

 they can in sandy soil. 



One set of pipes should debouch into the side 

 of a ditch, so that a fox hunting up it will easily 

 find the entrance. 



The other set of pipes must have the mouth 

 well screened from observation by bushes, dead 

 thorns, or something similar, so that a fox can 

 emerge without being seen, or there will be great 

 difficulty in bolting him. It is preferable for 

 this set of pipes to terminate in a hollow in the 



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ground, or a shallow pit, which helps to hide it, 

 and in which the bushes can be heaped. Some 

 skill is required in adjusting these, for they 

 should be so arranged as to afford shelter to a 

 fox when driven out of the earth, to allow him 

 to recover from the first dazzling effect of the 

 daylight, and to have a chance of making up his 

 mind where he will go, while all the time he has 

 to dodge the terrier which has followed close 

 after him, and is chasing him round and round. 

 A few tree-roots, trunks of worthless trees, large 

 rocks, or anything similar that is handy may be 



