loo Game and Foxes. 



with a desire to get rid of foxes, and he can 

 gratify it in no more legitimate way than by 

 careful attention to the details specified. 



The officials of a Hunt do not always extend 

 due consideration to the interests of their shooting 

 friends when drawing coverts, being more intent 

 on getting a fox to head for a good country than 

 on preventing the escape of game over the 

 boundary of an estate. Running hounds intent 

 on the line of their fox do little damage in passing 

 through a covert, but it is a different matter when 

 they are drawing ; in the last case every corner is 

 searched and little in the way of game left 

 undisturbed. This is particularly likely to occur 

 if a fox fails to break directly, and the draw is 

 lengthened. Hounds ought to be thrown into 

 covert so that any game driven out will make for 

 home and not away, and the Field should be 

 placed in a position to assist in this desirable 

 object. There is room for a great deal more 

 consideration of this kind, as every shooting man 

 who likes to provide a fox will agree. 



There is one thing the Hunt authorities often 

 do which cannot be too strongly condemned, and 

 that is the turning down of semi-tame foxes in 

 a covert stocked with young game. This is done 

 because such litters are on hand and the Hunt 



