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But I trust you will have a country that 

 will require no such contrivances to give 

 you sport, for one good natural covert is 

 worth twenty artificial ones, and more likely 

 to hold stout foxes ; for the old ones are 

 shy fellows, and particularly nice in their 

 choice of habitation ; indeed it even re- 

 quires judgment to manage your coverts so 

 as to get runs from them. 



If you should hunt a country that may 

 have a large woodland, in which the foxes 

 commonly hang, and seldom go away, it is 

 the best plan to hunt it often and kill a fox 

 in the covert, and be sure to give him to 

 your hounds in the very heart of it. When I 

 first commenced, in rather a woodland coun- 

 try, several of the members of the hunt said 

 to me, it is useless your going to a certain co- 

 vert, you never will kill a fox or make him 

 break, — " The devil I wont ; I shall meet 

 there every Monday" was my answer, " till 

 I diminish the foxes ;" the first day I met 



