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beat and ourselves, a fresh detachment swept the 

 ground to our right, so as to join the others in 

 the centre, close to the source of the Jansenica. 

 Early in the beat a small light-coloured fox, 

 probably a vixen, passed my post, but a long 

 way below me. She probably got to ground just 

 beyond ; at any rate, she never came to the gun, 

 nor did several others the beaters put up. I have 

 no doubt that on these occasions many foxes, 

 hearing shots in front, prefer to squat in the 

 open in the hope of breaking back, in which they 

 generally succeed. Next an old hare stopped 

 in front of me to consider, and then decided to 

 make for the right of the line of guns, where 

 she was promptly rolled over by a Turk. This 

 beat only resulted in one fox, but he was a 

 magnificent old dog. The next step was the 

 important one of lunch, wdiich had been sent from 

 the hotel at Mostar, and was waiting for us at 

 a Han, or wayside coffee-house. It was some 

 time before we were again posted, this time 

 round three sides of a plantation, at the bottom 

 of which came the Blato, before referred to. The 

 guns were rather thickly crowded, but few of them 

 got any shooting, a good deal of game getting 

 away by skirting the water. Four more foxes, 

 a couple of hares, and a partridge was the bag 

 this beat. For the wind-up we returned to the 

 hillside above the Jansenica valley, but further 



