The Un^vritten Laws of 

 Foxhunting 



General 



A fox started in a pack's own country may be 

 followed anywhere. 



Should a pack run a fox over their border into 

 a neighboring country and he should get to ground, 

 the Master of the invading pack has a perfect right 

 to get him out in the following ways; but he must 

 under no circumstances use a spade or pickaxe, or 

 break ground in any way. 



He may put a terrier in, provided he belongs to 

 his hunt establishment, and is either running with 

 the pack, or carried with it. He must not com- 

 mandeer a terrier out of his country or in the 

 country into which he runs. 



He may try and drown the fox out. 



He may use a pole to poke him out. 



He may try to smoke him out. 



If there is more than one fox in the den, he 

 only has a right to kill one. 



If a pack of hounds should run a fox over their 

 border into a neighboring country and apparently 

 lose him, and eventually turn to go back into their 

 own domains, and a fox is holloa'd at no great dis- 

 tance from where they lost their fox, they have a 

 perfect right to go and hunt that fox, as it is im- 

 possible to say it was not their hunted fox who had 

 lain down ; but, supposing they had trotted, say two 

 miles or so from where the fox had been lost and 

 then a holloa occurred, or information came to hand 

 of a fox having been seen, the huntsman should not 



