228 THOUGHTS UPON HUNTING. 



Bag- FOXES always Irun down the wind : — such sports- 

 men, therefore, as choose to turn them out, may at the 

 same time choose what country they shall run. Foxes 

 that are found, do not follow this rule invariably. Strong 

 earths, and large covers, are great inducements; and it is 

 no inconsiderable wind that will keep foxes from them. 

 A gentleman who never hunts, being on a visit to a friend 

 of his in the country, who hunts a great deal, heard him 

 talk frequently of hag-foxes : as he was unwilling to betray 

 fiis ignorance, his discretion and curiosity kept him for 

 some time in suspense, till at last he could not refrain 

 from asking. What ktnd of an animal a bag-fox was? and. 

 If it was not a species of fox peculiar to that country? 



A PACK of hounds having run a fox to a ground imme- 

 diately after they had found him, he was digged and turned 

 out again ; and, that the operation of turning him out 

 might be better performed, the master of the hounds un- 

 dertook it himself. You will hardly believe me when I 

 tell you, that he forgot the place where he turned him out, 

 and they never once could hit upon the scent. 



If you breed up cubs, you will find a fox-court neces- 



