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off on the six heavy coaches, beginning at six in the 

 iiorning, and finishing off at 8 p.m., with two boxes 

 on \k% top of the mail, so that cubs kept arriving at 

 The Squire's, all day and night as well. That gentle- 

 man was considerably astonished at his agent's acti- 

 vity ; but he sent a cheque, and simply said that 

 he should require no more. However, so many of 

 them preferred the better lying of the adjacent 

 country, that several more went down in subsequent 

 seasons. 



Foxes are not so plentiful on the Con- ., .. ._ ^ ^ 



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tment as they once were ; but still the 

 French peasants who dig them out in the sandy dis- 

 tricts between Boulogne and Paris, are seldom allowed 

 more for them than a couple of francs and a dinner. 

 The original French fox had a very long narrow head, 

 and was rather long in the leg, and not so bright in 

 colour as the English fox, but now there is hardly any 

 difference between them. Russian foxes are blacker 

 than ours, and Tom Goosey had a very favourite one, 

 which used to live on a slab in his garden, and now 

 confers lustre in death along with Mr. Lorraine Smith's 

 hunt sketches, on the Belvoir Inn parlour. The Ca- 

 nadian foxes are very like our own ; and an octo- 

 genarian ex-master of the Montreal hounds assures 

 us that when he used to hunt them with his twelve 

 couple, in covers about forty miles by twelve, they 

 would perpetually head back when they had run six 

 miles in it, as if they did not like to venture into a 

 strange country. The German foxes are grey in the 

 muzzle, and, like the Dutch ones, have a more bluff 

 countenance, and a bull head. They arrive with rabbit 

 cargoes from Ostend, and at times from Rotterdam in 

 cattle-boats. French foxes come over less punished 

 than they used to do, when the communication was 

 slower ; but as masters of steamers will not take them 

 as freight, they import them in small egg-boats, ten 

 or so in a box, with some plucks for provender. 



