300 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



cubs be large, you msy turn ilieni out immedi-! 

 ately : a large earth will be beft for that purpofe, 

 where they ought to be regularly fed ^Ni'\\ rab- 

 bits, birds, or fheeps henges, which ever you can, 

 mofl: conveniently get. I believe, when a fox is 

 once tainted, he never recovers. The weather 

 being remarkably hot, thofe which I kept in my 

 fox-court (and it, at that time, was a very clofe 

 one) all died, one after the other, of the fame 

 diibrdcr. 



Where rabbits are plentiful, nature will foon 

 teach your cubs how to catch the young ones ; 

 and till that period of abundance arrives it may 

 be neceffary to provide food for them.* Where 

 game is fcarce wet weather will be mofl: favoura- 

 ble to them ; they can then live on beetles, chaf- 

 fers^ worms, &c. which they will find great plenty 

 of. I think the morning is the beft lime to turn 

 them out; if turned out in the evening they will 

 be likely to ramble, but if turned ovi early, and 

 fed on the earth, there is little dou')t of their re- 

 maining there.'}- I alfo recommend to you, to. 



* If a {lieep die, let it be carried to tl:e cr.rth, and it will af- 

 ford the cubs food for fome time. 



f A raare certain method, perhaps, might be to pale in 

 part of a copfe which has an earth in it. It might be 

 well ftocked v.ith rabbits, the young ones of which the 

 cubs would foon learn to catch. You might have meufcs in 

 the pale, and let them out when capable <4 getting their own 

 food. 



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