HUNTING DIRECTORY. 205 



OfTcrriers best suited lor l'"ox Huntiii;:. 



" In open countries, foxes, when they are much dis- 

 turbed, will lie at earth. If you have difficulty in finding, 

 stinking the earths will sometimes produce them again. 

 The method which I use to stink an earth is as follows : — 

 Three pounds of sulphur and one pound of assafoetida 

 are boiled up together ; matches are then made of brown 

 paper, and lighted in the holes, which are afterwards 

 stopped very close. Earths that are not used by badgers 

 may be stopped early, which will answer the same pur- 

 pose ; but where badgers frequent it would be useless, 

 as they would open them again. 



" Badgers may be caught alive in sacks, placed at the 

 mouth of the hole : setting traps for them would be 

 dangerous, as you might catch your foxes also. They 

 may be caught by stinking them out of a great earth, 

 and afterwards following them to a smaller one, and 

 digging them. 



"lour country requires a good terrier. I should 

 prefer the black or white terrier : some there are so like 

 a fox, that awkward people frequently mistake one for 

 the other. If you like terriers to run with your pack, 

 large ones, at times, are useful ; but in an earth they do 

 but little good, as they cannot always get up to the fox. 

 You had better not enter a young terrier at a badger : 

 young terriers have not the art of shifting like old ones ; 

 and, if they are good for any thing, most probably will 

 go up boldly to him at once, and get themselves most 

 terribly bitten : for this reason, you should enter them 

 at young foxes when you can. 



" Besides the digging of foxes, by which method many 

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



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