THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 2^^ 



of fuch as lie high, and are dry and thick at bot- 

 tom ; fuch alfo as lie out of the wind ; and fuch 

 as are on the funny tide of hills.* The fame 

 cover where you iind one fox, when it has re- 

 mained quiet any time, will probably produce 

 another. 



It is to little pnrpofe to draw hazle coppices at 

 the time when nuts are gathered ; furze covers, 

 or two or three years coppices, are then the only 

 quiet places that a fox can kennel in : t/iey alfo 

 are dillurbed when pheafant-fhooting begins, and 

 older covers are more likely. The fealbn when 

 foxes are moft wild and ftrong is about Chrift- 

 mas; a huntfman, then, muft lofe no time in 

 drawing ; he muft draw up the wind ; imlefs the 

 cover be very large, in vv^hich cafe it may be bet- 

 ter perhaps to crofs it ; giving the hounds a fide 

 wind, left he fhould be obliged to turn down the 

 wind at laft : — in either cafe let him draw as 

 quietly as he can. 



Young coppices, at this time of the year, are 

 quite bare ; the moft likely places are four or five 

 years coppices, and fuch as are furzy at bottom. 



* This muft of courfe vary in different countries, a huntf- 

 man who has been ufed to a country knows beft where to find 

 his game. 



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