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limes, are useful j but in an earth they do little good, 

 as they cannot always get up to a fox. You had bettef 

 not enter a young terrier at a badger. Young terriers have 

 not the art of shifting like old ones ; and, should they be 

 good for any thing, most probably will go up boldly to 

 birr' at once, and get themselves most terribly bitten : for 

 this reason, you should enter them at young foxes when 

 you can. Before I quit this subjed, I must mention an ex« 

 traordinary instance of sagacity in a bitch-fox that was dig- 

 ged out of an earth, with four young ones, and brought in 

 a sack upwards of twenty miles to a gentleman in my neighs 

 bourhood, to be turned out the next day before his hounds. 

 This fox, weak as she must have been, ran in a straight 

 line back again to her own country, crossed two rivers, and 

 was at last killed near to the earth out of which she had been 

 digged the day before. Foxes that are bred in cliffs near the sea, 

 seldom are known to ramble any great distance from them : 

 and sportsmen, who know the count:'y where this fox was 

 turned out, will tell you, that there is not the least reason 

 to think that she could have had any knowledge of it. 



Besides the digging of foxes (by which method many 

 young ones are taken, and old ones destroyed), traps, &c. 



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