314 SAGACITY OF A FOX. 



there are so like a fox, that awkward people 

 frequently mistake one for the other. If you 

 like terriers to run with your pack, large ones, 

 at times, are useful ; but in an earth they do 

 but little good, as they cannot always get up 

 to the fox. You had better not enter a young 

 terrier at a badger : young terriers have not 

 the art of shifting like old ones; and, if they 

 are good for any thing, most probably will go 

 up boldly to him at once, and get themselves 

 most terribly bitten : for this reason, you 

 should enter them at young foxes when you 

 can. Before I quit this subject, I must men- 

 tion an extraordinary instance of sagacity in 

 a bitch-fox, that was digged out of an earth 

 with four young ones, and brought in a sack 

 upwards of twenty miles to a gentleman in 

 my neighbourhood, to be turned out thj^ next 

 day before his hounds. This fox, weak as 

 she must have been, ran in a straight line 

 back again to her own covnitry, crossed two 

 rivers, and was at last killed near to the 

 earth she was digged out of the day before. 

 Foxes that are bred in the cliffs near the sea 

 seldom are known to ramble any great dis- 

 tance from them ; and sportsmen, who know 

 the country where this fox was turned out. 



