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You ask my opinion as to the method of 

 establishing earths in a country. The best 

 I know is to procure two young badgers, 

 a male and female, they will breed and 

 make you plenty of strong healthy earths ; 

 many other modes are adopted, but I think 

 them all bad. 



Having established a sufficient number 

 of these earths, your next consideration 

 must be the appointment of careful earth- 

 stoppers, as their duty extends to the tak- 

 ing care of the litters of foxes, as well as 

 to the stopping of the earths ; and in order 

 to be certain of having them well stopped, 

 you will find it safest to pay for each time 

 of stopping, and agree with the people who 

 perform this necessary service, that if the 

 earths are not stopped at the proper time, 

 and as they ought to be, they will not be 

 paid for that days stopping. 



If, after this notice, you run to ground 

 in any particular man's stop, you had better 



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