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"making his point apparently for the covers at 

 *'Chisholme, these he could not reach, but was 

 *'run into near the little village of Coldwatham, 

 " after one of the fastest bursts of the season j 

 "he never changed his point but was killed in 

 "the open, nine miles from xlston "Wood where 

 "we found him.'* 



This sounds very fine in favour of Mr. 

 Pug, but if we look at it rightly it is about 

 this ; " he went gallantly oiF," the fact was he 

 was too scared to stay. It mgy be said some 

 foxes would have stayed and been " badgered " 

 about the cover for half-an-hour, probably, so 

 would the fox in question had he known well 

 the intricacies of the cover in which he was 

 found, if he had not been too much frightened 

 to do so. Again, "disdaining to try the earths 

 he never entered the cover," take my words for 

 it, he neither disdained the earths, the cover, or 

 his pursuers, but made the best of his way for a 

 locality he knew, and where he felt that having 



