28 AD VANTA GES OF GRE YHO UN.D FOXES 



foxes are allowed a year's 'jubilee,' they will fill out so 

 strong as to be able to go thirty miles without any very 

 great effort during the winter. Towards spring they 

 get softer, and are often caught napping in the open. 



The great advantage of these Highland greyhound 

 foxes is that they very much resemble deer in their 

 tactics of using the wind as a guide to safety, if they 

 are allowed to do so, and are not too much pressed at 

 the start. Masters of hounds who use them should 

 remember that these foxes require time to fill out and 

 grow, like a large over-grown colt ; but if they are 

 hunted the first season after their introduction into a 

 strange country they cannot be expected to show more 

 sport than the ordinary short-brushed little rascal. I 

 very strongly advise all who wish to preserve such 

 foxes to arrange with the M.F.H. to refrain from 

 hunting them until they are fifteen months old, and if 

 this is carried out I can only say, ' Catch them if you 

 can.' 



If they are not pressed, these foxes will face the wind 

 for miles, and when they feel they are getting a bit 

 done, which will not be for at least a couple of hours, 

 they will not even then have recourse to any of the 

 mean dodges which ordinary foxes are capable of, such 

 as getting up drains, trees, etc., but they will make for 

 a hill if they can, and do their best to leave their 

 pursuers standing still. I shall not forget a remark 

 made by my old friend Sam Reynell, on having failed 

 to account for one of these foxes (one out of a litter 

 which I got for him in the Highlands). He was a 

 sixteen or seventeen stone man, and he was never very 

 well mounted, for most of his horses were noted for 

 their musical talents, with the exception of some one 



