FOXES, THEIR MODE OF LIVING. 81 



grapes has some truth or meaning in it, and is not 

 altogether a fable. 



Such a mischievous fellow as a fox is ought to be 

 hunted. In the daytime he is a lazy rascal, and 

 unless stopped out of his earth at night when he is 

 committing his various larcenies and on his marauding 

 expeditions, he will lie for hours curled up in his 

 earth, or behind some large stump or in his " denno " 

 of some kind. He is, moreover, better fitted for 

 affording amusement than any other animal, and 

 from the larking smell he has about him he is just 

 the article made for sport. 



When once he has been found, and scent is pretty 

 good, he seems to know that if he don't make the 

 best of his way and brush along he will probably 

 come to grief and lose his brush. If scent is not 

 good, he seems crafty enough to be aware of it, and 

 will hang about, and give no sport, but a lot of trouble 

 to both huntsman and hounds. 



I remember well Colonel Lowther, of olden days, 

 when a fox was hanging about and there was no 

 scent to make him move, and people were saying 

 what a bad fox he was, and that he must be so full 

 of those beastly rabbits that he could hardly run, he 

 tapped me on the shoulder with his whip, and said, 



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