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.*irv, or 1 caimot advise you to keep them long in it. I 

 turned out one year ten brace of cubs j most of which,, by 

 being kept till they were tainted before they were turned 

 out, were found dead in the covers, with scarcely any hair 

 upon them; whilst a brace which had effecfled their escape^ 

 by making a hole' in the sack in which they were brought, 

 lived, and shewed excellent sport. Should the cubs be large, 

 you may turn them out immediately : — a large earth will 

 be best for that purpose j where they ought to be regularly 

 fed with rabbit's, bird's, or sheep's henges, whichever you 

 can rhost conveniently get. I believe when a fox is once 

 tainted he never recovers. The weather being remarkably 

 hot, those which I kept in my fox-court (and it at that time 

 was a very close one) all died, one after the other, of the 

 same disorder* 



Where rabbits are plentiful. Nature will soon teach 



I have turned into my woods, have I ever seen again ; besides, the turn- 

 ing out of foxes, and alarming the neighbourhood, may hasten their. de- 

 struftion. Foxes will be plentiful enough where traps are not set to de- 

 stroy them: should they do any injury to the farmer, make satisfaction 

 for it : encourage the neighbouring game-keepers to preserve them, by 

 paying them handsomely for every litter of cubs that they take care of for 

 you. If you aft in this manner, you may not have occasion to turn any out, 



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