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Military College the following season, as the 

 vixen would know the lie of the land, and would 

 probably teach her cubs to work it. But he 

 replied that in the many years he had been in 

 the country (over thirty then) he had never 

 known a fox take that line. However, strange 

 to say, on almost the first (if not the very first) 

 meet of the next season at Bramshill, he found 

 a fox on the heath not very far from where the 

 cubs had been turned down, and ran it past 

 Castle Bottom, through Minley Manor, over the 

 Flats to Darby Green, and across the River 

 Blackwater, up the Rifie Range at the Royal 

 Military College, to ground within some three 

 hundred yards of the earth to which the vixen had 

 brought back the two cubs ; and this, I expect, 

 is the line she broughc them by, sticking to the 

 heath until within sight of home. To have come 

 direct by Finchhampstead and Wellington 

 College would have saved her some miles. 

 About a month or six weeks afterwards they 

 found another fox, this time a cub, almost in 

 the same place, and ran him the identical line 

 till past Minley Manor, when I think they either 

 lost or killed him. And no fox has taken this 

 Ime since, nor ever will again I expect. 



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