1 85 The hoohe of Hunting 



that houndes haue the maunge and cankerwormes fometimes. 

 And therefore it is that I councelled to waflie your Tcrryers, 

 as foone as they came out of the earth. All thefe thinges I haue 

 feene by experience : they are long liued, and harde to kyll. For 

 I haue feene a well byting Greyhounde, take a Badger and 

 teare his guttes out of his bellye, and yet the Badgerd hathe 

 fought ftill, and would not yeelde to death. True it is that they 

 are verye tender vpon the fnowt, and you can not giue them fo 

 little a blowe vpon the fnowte with a IHcke, but that they wil 

 dye immediately. 



As touching Foxes, I account fmall pafhime in hunting of 

 them, efpecially within the grounde. For as foone as they per- 

 ceyue the Terryers, if they yearne harde, and lye neare vnto 

 them, they will bolte and come out ftreight wayes, vnlefTe it 

 be when the bytche hath young Cubbes : then they will not for- 

 sake their young ones to dye for it. They make their earthes 

 and Burrowes as neare as they can, in grounde that is harde to 

 dygge, as in galte, clay, and ftonye grounde, or amongeft the 

 rootes of trees : and their earthes haue commonly but one hole, 

 the whiche is verie ftraight, and goeth verie farre in, before it 

 come at their couche. But fometimes they take a Badgers old 

 Burrowe, whiche hath moe chambers, holes, and angles. When 

 a good Terryer doth once reache a Foxe, they defende themfelues 

 llirewdly, but yet nothing like the Badgerd, neyther is their by- 

 ting fo daungerous. If you take a bytche Foxe in the time that 

 Ihe goeth on clycketing, and cut out hir gutte whiche holdeth 

 hir fpreame or nature, together with the kydneys whiche 

 Gelders take awaye from a bytche whiche when they fpaye hir, 

 and then cut all into fmall gobbets, and put them into a potte 

 bote as they be, then take Goome of Mafticke and mingle it 

 therewith, and couer the potte clofe, it will keepe all the yeare, 

 and will ferue to make a trayne for a Foxe, when you would, 

 on this wife : Take a fkynne of Bacon, and lay it on a Gryd- 

 yron, and when it is well broyled and hote, then dippe it and 

 puddle it in this fawce that is within the pot, and make a trayn 

 therewith, and you fliall fee that if there be a Foxe neare to any 



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