^^8 THOUGI^ITS tJfON flU^ITtNG'. 



In open countries, foxes, when they are mueh disturbed, 

 Xvili He at earth. If you have difficulty in finding, stinking 

 the earths will sometimes produce them again. The method 

 ivhich I use to stink an earth, is as follows :— Three pounds 

 of sulphur and one pound of asafostida are boiled up to- 

 gether : matches are then made of brown paper, and light- 

 ed in the holes, which are afterwards stopped very close. 

 Earths that are not used by badgers, may be stopped 

 early, which will answer the same purpose ; but, where 

 badgers frequent, it would be useless ; for they would open 

 them again. 



Badgers may be caught alive in sacks placed at the 

 mouth of the hole : setting traps for them would be dan- 

 gerous, as you might catch your foxes also : — they may 

 be caught by stinking them out of a great earth, and af- 

 terwards follovying them to a smaller one, and digging 

 them. 



YotJR country requires a good terrier. I should prefer 

 the black or white terrier: — some there are so like a fox, 

 that aukv/ard people frequently mistake one for the other. 

 If you like terriers to run with your pack, large ones, at 



