a_54 THOUGHTS UPOK HUNTING. 



hunt your smq.ll covers till you have well rattled the 

 large ones first ^ for, until the foxes be thinned and 

 dispersed v,'here they were in plenty, it must be bad 

 policy to drive ethers there to increase the number. If 

 you would thin your foxes, you must throw off at the 

 same cover as long as you can find a fox. If you come 

 off with the first fox that breaks, you do not disturb the 

 cover, and may expedl to find there again the next day ; 

 but where they are scarce, you should never draw the 

 sa,me cover two days following. 



Judicious huntsmen will observe where foxes like best 

 to lie. In chases and forests, where you have a great 

 trad of cover to draw^ such observation is necessary, or 

 you will lose much time in finding. Generally speaking, 

 I think they are fondest of such as lie high, and are dry 

 and thick at bottom j such also as lie out of the wind, 

 and such as are on the sunny side of hills*. The same co- 

 ver where you find one fox, when it has remained quiet 

 any time, will probably produce another. 



* This must of course vary in different countries : a huntsman who has 

 fecen used to a country, knows best where to find his game. 



