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bitches they have spayed ; cut those into 

 pieces, and mingle a little of her grease, and 

 as much as you can save of the urine, with 

 a little gummastic, naturally hot, and put the 

 mixture in a glazed earthen bottle, put it in 

 the sun, or near a slow fire, till it is dissolved, 

 then stop it up close and put it a foot or 

 more under ground till you want to use it : 

 by keeping it this way, it will serve for years, 

 and the least matter of it will do. 



The train must be ordered thus ; take the 

 skin of bacon and lay it on a gridiron ; when 

 it is hot, and thoroughly broiled, anoint it 

 with the aforesaid ingredients contained in 

 your bottle ; by this means, if there be a fox 

 near, or within a mile or so, where this train 

 was drawn, and the wind fair, the fox will 

 follow it; but he that draweth the trairv 

 must rub the soles of his shoes with new 

 cow-dung, and must have the feet of two 

 stockings half full of the same dung to slip on 

 his shoes, lest the fox scent his feeting ; and 

 thus you may train a fox to his standing, and 



