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debtee! to his courtesy for their wonted pasture. 

 Wonderful proofs of obedience, sagacity, and 

 penetration ! The many learned dogs and learn- 

 ed horses that so frequently appear, and astonish 

 the vulgar, sufficiently evince what education 

 is capable of; and it is to education I must 

 chiefly attribute the superior excellence of the 

 buck-hound, since I have seen high-bred fox- 

 hounds do the same under the same good mas- 

 ters. But to return to my subject. — 



Young foxes, that have been much disturbed, 

 will lie at ground. I once found seven or eight 

 in a cover, where, the next day, I could not 

 find one ; nor were they to be found elsewhere : 

 the earths, at such times, should be stopped 

 three or four hours before day, or you will find 

 no foxes. 



The first day you hunt a cover that is full 

 of foxes, and you v/ant blood, let them not be 

 checked back into the cover, which is the usual 

 practice at such times, but let some of them get 

 off: if you do not, what with continual chang- 

 ings, and sometimes running the heel, it is pro- 

 bable you will not kill any. Another precaution, 

 I think, may be also necessary — that is, to stop 

 such earths only as you cannot dig. If some 

 foxes should go to ground, it will be as well ; 



