^C^ THOUGHTS trPON HUNT1N(^- 



ilink an earth is as follows: — three pounds of 

 fulphur, and one pound of aflafcctida are boiled up 

 together ; matches are then made of brown pa- 

 per, and lighted in the holes, which arc after- 

 wards flopped very clofe. — Earths, that are not 

 Tifed by badgers, may be flopped early, which will 

 anlwer the famepurpofe; but where badgers fre- 

 iquent, it would be ulelefs, for they would open 

 them again. 



Badgers may be caught alive in facks, placed 

 at the mouth of the hole ; fetting traps for them 

 would be. dangerous, as vou might catch your 

 foxes alfo. They may be caught by iHnking theni 

 out of a great earth, and afterwards following thern 

 to a fmaller one, and digging them. 



Your country requires a good terrier ; I Ihould 

 prefer the black or v.hite terrier ; fome there are 

 fo like a fox, that awkward people frequently 

 miftake one for the other. If you like terriers to 

 run with your pack, large ones, at times, are ufe- 

 ful ; but in an carlh, they do but little good, as 

 they cannot always get up to a fox. You had 

 better not enter a young terrier at a badger : — 

 young terriers have not the art ('■( ihifting like old 

 ones ; and, fhould they be good for any thing, 

 mofl probably will go up boldly to him at once, 

 and get themfelves molt terribly bitten ; for this 

 reafon you fho'uTd enter them at young foxes, 



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