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a private mark on every fox which you turn out, that you 

 may know him again. Your cubs, though they may get off 

 from the covers where they were bred, when hunted will 

 seldom fail to reiuni to them. 



Gentlemen who buy. foxes do gi'eat injury to fox- 

 hunting; for they encourage the robbing of neighbouring 

 hunts : in which case, without doubt, the receiver is as bad 

 as the thief. It is the interest of every fox-hunter to be 

 cautious how he behaves in this particular. Indeed, I be- 

 lieve most gentlemen are ; and it may be easy to retaliate on 

 such as are not. — 1 am told, that in some hunts it is the 

 constant employment of one person to watch the earths at 

 -the breeding time, to prevent the cubs from being stolen. 

 Furze-covers cannot be too much encouraged, for that 

 reason ; for there they are safe. They have also other ad- 

 vantages attending them : they are certain places to find in : 

 foxes cannot break from them unseen ; nor are you so liable 

 to change as in other covers*. 



* A fox, when pressed by hounds, will seldom go into zfurze^brake. 

 Rabbits, which are the fox's favourite food, may also be encouraged there, 

 and yet do little damage. Were they suffered to establish themselves in 



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