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One would scarcely think such elaborate instructions were 

 required to tell us how to make a fox bolt. A terrier for 

 the purpose should, without any to-do, go right in to his 

 game, and bark at and it worry until "red rover " finds 

 his apartment underground too uncomfortable for occupa- 

 tion. There is always considerable danger in digging 

 a fox out when the terrier is with him, especially in large 

 earths, for rocks may be displaced, roll upon and crush 

 the dog, or the entrance may be blocked up by stones and 

 fallen earth, to the suffocation of everything underneath. 



Although the terrier is a natural and inveterate enemy 

 to the fox, there are times when the two will live together 

 and feed from the same dish, and " Stonehenge " gives 

 particulars of the two breeding together. As to how a 

 terrier bitch suckled a vixen's cubs, Daniel gives a some- 

 what pathetic incident. On the last day of the season 

 that author's hounds, hunting near Sudbury, had an 

 extraordinary fast run of an hour, when the fox went to 

 ground. The terriers, owing to the pace, were left far 

 behind, and as the master wished to blood his hounds, a 

 terrier bitch from the village was produced, and, with 

 another dog, drove or killed the fox, which was thrown to 

 the pack. Whilst the operation of breaking up was pro- 

 gressing, one of the terriers slipped back into the earth, 

 and in due course a bitch fox was dug out and two cubs 

 worried underground. The mother was allowed to escape, 

 but her three other cubs were taken and put to the terrier 

 which had killed the first brace. The bitch took kindly 

 enough to the little things, and suckled and attended them 

 equally as well as her own offspring, which had been born 

 five weeks previously to the time she adopted her foster 

 children. 



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