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CHAPTER XIY. 



"The fading many-colour' d woods, 

 Shade deepening over shade, the country round 

 Imbrown : a crowded umbrage, dusk and dun, 

 Of every hue, from wan declining green 

 To sooty dark." Thomson. 



Visits and visitations to cubs — Pet places — Idleness the parent of 

 vice even in foxes — To be kept moving— Small and large coverts — 

 Mr. Ward and the Craven country — Southgrove the elysium of 

 foxes — Friendly societies — A novel plan for breaking them up 

 — Faggots vice foxhounds — Always at home — "Woodland foxes. 



If practicable, every litter of cubs, bred withia 

 tlie limits of the hunt, should be visited by the 

 young hounds before the first day of pheasant 

 shooting. To those in small coverts, a short 

 morning call will be sufficient, just to stir them 

 up a little, upon others in large woodlands, 

 a visitation may be inflicted, — a thorough good 

 routing. There are pet places in every country, 

 wdiich masters often spare until the commencement 

 of regular hunting, but nothing is gained by for- 

 bearance. Young foxes, from having been so long- 

 undisturbed, become fat and indolent, and being- 

 unacquainted with their enemies, are easily snapped 

 up, without affording any sport at all, besides 

 which, being ignorant of country, save, perhaps, 



