THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 2S5 



Itefl : after having tried the country round, they 

 had given him up, and were gotten home ; when 

 in rode a farmer, full gallop, with news of the 

 fox : he had found him, he faid, in his flable, 

 and had iTiut him in. The hounds returned; 

 the fox, however, ilood but a little while, as he 

 was quite run np before. 



Some years ago, my hounds running a fox 

 acrofs an open country, in a thick fog, the fox 

 Icarcely out of view, three of the leading hounds 

 difappcared all of a fudden, and the whipper-in, 

 luckily, was near enough to fee it happen. They 

 fell into a dry well, near an hundred icdi deep : 

 they and the fox remained there together till the 

 next day ; when, wi'h the greateft difficulty, we 

 got them all four out. 



Another time, having run a fox a burft of an 

 hour and quarter, the fevereft I ever remember, 

 the hounds, at lafr, got up to him by the fide of 

 a river, where he had llaid for them. One 

 hound feizcd him as he v/as fwimming acrofs, 

 dnd they both went down together. The hound 

 came up again, but the fox appeared no more. 

 By means of a boat and a long pole we got the 

 fox out. Had he not been i^^w to link, he 

 would hardly have been tried for under water, 

 and, without doubt, we fliould have wondered 

 what had become of him. 



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