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happen to be lost in the succeeding hunt- 

 ing season, they will the better know their 

 way home. A country ought to be regu- 

 larly hunted, the good and the bad alter- 

 nately, to give general satisfaction, and in 

 the long run you will have a better chance 

 of sport. If you are continually disturbing 

 your best country, you may have blank 

 days, and the foxes will be very shy. 

 Where there are many earths they will 

 lay at ground. There can be no doubt 

 but it must be more agreeable to hunt a 

 good country always, if you have extent 

 enough for an open season. Provided you 

 cannot hunt the inferior one, so as to give 

 satisfaction, it is more liberal to give it up 

 altogether to some neighbouring pack, or 

 even to some one from a distance, who 

 might be glad to hunt it regularly. The 

 keeping a country, and requiring owners 

 of coverts to preserve, without hunting it, 

 is too much to expect, and gives people 



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