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The Sacks or Bags being thus fet, caft of your 

 Hounds, and beat all the Groves, Hedges, and Tufts 

 within a mile or two about. What Badgers are abroad, 

 being alarm'd by the Dogs, will liraight repair to their 

 Earths or Burrows, and fo be taken. 



Let him that ftandeth to watch the Sacks , ftand 

 clofe, and upon a clear Wind, for elfe the Badger will 

 foon find him, and fly fome other way for fafety. 

 But if the Hounds either encounter him, or undertake 

 the chafe before he can get into his Earth, he will then 

 ftand at bay like a Boar, and make moft incomparable 

 (port. 



What Injiruments are to be ufed in digging, 

 and horp to dig for Badger or Fox. 



In the firft place, you muft have fuch as are able to 

 dig : next, you muft have fo many Terriers garniftied 

 with Bells hung in Collars, to make the Fox or Badger 

 bolt the fooner i befides, the Collars will be fome fmall 

 defence unto the Terriers. 



The Inftruments to dig withal are thefe : a fharp- 

 pointed Spade, which ferveth to begin the Trench where 

 the ground is hardeft, and broader Tools will not fo well 

 enter s the round hollowed Spade", which is ufeful to dig 

 amongft Roots, having very (harp edges v the flat broad 

 Spade, to dig withal when the Trench is better opened, 

 and the ground fof ter j Mattocks and Pick-axes, to dig 

 in hard ground where a Spade will do but little fervice i 

 the Coal-rakc, to cleanfe the Hole, and to keep it from 

 flopping up i the Clamps, whereby you may take a Fox 

 or Badger out alive to make fport therewith afterwards. 

 And it would not be amifs to have a Pail of Water, to 

 irefrefti your Terriers after they are come out of the Earth 

 to take breath. 



In this Older you may befiege a fox or Badger in 



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