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permitted to do so. In former years the principal 

 material used for draining was stone, brushwood, 

 and turves, under which foxes could easily make 

 their way and excavate a cavity at the upper end 

 sufficiently large to accommodate themselves and a 

 small family of cubs. Since the introduction of 

 pipes for this purpose, a dry lodgment is not so 

 easily obtained ; still, when pressed by hounds, 

 foxes will seek any port in a storm. A few good 

 terriers are of great use to a pack of foxhounds, 

 and we think no kennel complete without them. 

 The white Scotch is the best we have ever known 

 for this purpose, a breed of which had been in our 

 family more than a century, and they were quite 

 perfection in their work ; would help to draw 

 covert, and run with the pack, and somehow or 

 other, even in quick bursts, they contrived to be 

 thereabouts at the finish, to have their small share 

 of the spoil ; and, if run to ground, we had not long 

 to wait for their assistance in ejecting the fox. 

 Perhaps they were a trifle too hard in the mouth, 

 although never crossed by bull-dog blood, and if 

 they could not bolt they would kill him. Terriers 

 belonmnc^ to a foxhound kennel ouMit to be stanch 

 to fox, and not given to run any other game, for if 

 once permitted to do so, they cannot be depended 

 on ; and we have heard of digging to a rabbit, which 

 is the reverse of agreeable on a wintry day, not 

 to mention the diss^ust a huntsman must feel when 

 making sure of his fox being within reach of his 

 whip, he is still showing his heels above ground. 

 It must not always be taken as a certain conclusion 



