CHAPTER VIII 



EARTH-STOPPING 



HOSE countries 



whicli abound with 

 fox - earths are very 

 hable to have blank 

 days, according to 

 the usual method of 

 management ; for 

 where there are 

 earths, foxes at times 

 will be in them when they are wanted elsewhere, 

 even when the earth-stoppers do their duty. But 

 the first question to put is, whether it is likely that 

 a man can be depended on to get up long before 

 daylight in the coldest and most dreary part of 

 winter to stop a cold earth, and leave the warmer 

 clay by his side ? It is all very well for men to say. 

 Yes ! and that they know they do their duty 



