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hounds — old ones used for tracking wounded deer — 

 were put to hunt him. This the fox regarded as a 

 joke : he would set the hounds puzzles, and then 

 lying in some ambush spring out upon their backs. 

 After a time, however, the old hounds would tire 

 of the fun, and then one of them would roll the fox 

 over and hold him until he was recaptured and 

 chained up again. 



Nothing is more notable than the way hounds, 

 and even terriers, will generally respect a tame fox. 

 A pack of hounds was running a fox on one occasion 

 through an orchard in which a tame fox was chained. 

 They took absolutely no notice of the tame fox. 

 Then there is the well-known and often-quoted 

 instance of Mr. Templer, of Stover, who hunted 

 nothing but bagged foxes, some of which when at 

 home were on the best possible terms with the 

 hounds. 



The same thing has been said of the terrier • but 

 he is a bloodthirsty little person, and the following 

 story is a proof that the terrier is not so discriminat- 

 ing as the hound. A friend who has some excellent 

 working terriers went to visit a neighbour, taking 

 two of her dogs with her. Knowing that the visitor 

 would stay to luncheon and that the dogs would 

 come into the dining-room, a young man who was 



