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does not know what to do with them. Before 

 now a litter has been released at night in a covert 

 containing hand-reared pheasants just removed 

 from the rearing-field, and great destruction 

 wrought before measures could be taken to 

 prevent it. From courtesy alone the owner of a 

 shoot should be consulted before such foxes are 

 turned down on his place, or a breach of friend- 

 ship will surely result. If he consents to receive 

 a litter and it is released at a spot indicated by 

 him, the cubs comprising it are sure to be fed and 

 properly looked after. Instances are on record of 

 information being sent to hunting headquarters of 

 there being too many litters on an estate, accom- 

 panied by a request that some should be taken 

 elsewhere ; and these cubs have been removed by 

 day, and turned down on the same place the 

 succeeding night. 



Cubs which have been kept in confinement a 

 few wrecks and fed by hand become partially 

 tame ; their dread of man is not so pronounced as 

 it is in the case of purely wild foxes, and being 

 unaccustomed to get their own food such cubs 

 venture lengths which an ordinary fox would not 

 dare. In this case all the keeper's efforts and 

 carefully-devised scares are of little avail. Many 

 good friends of hunting have been alienated by 



