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year — it was seen at intervals in different places, and 

 chased, but always managed to escape its pursuers. What 

 became of it eventually is not known ; but, no doubt, 

 from its conspicuous colour, it fell a victim to the shot of 

 some ten-shilling licensed gun. For it is not likely that 

 the cold killed it, since it had already passed through 

 the rigours of winter unscathed. 



A DANGEROUS TRAP FOR TERRIERS. 



Under the heading, "A Curious Case of Badger-Draw- 

 ing," above, I gave an account of two fox terriers sent 

 into a badger's burrow having to be dug after, and when 

 reached, both found dead ; the badger being close beside 

 them alive, but, of course, killed by the diggers. In 

 the next entry I further recounted another incident, 

 where a Scotch terrier entering a badger's " holt " in a 

 cliff behind my own house, after a fox which had taken 

 shelter in it, neither dog nor fox ever coming out again. 

 Instances of terriers being lost in this way are far from 

 rare, and I have now another to chronicle, the particulars 

 of which have been furnished me by one of my friends, 

 an eminent M.F.H., who hunts one of the Welsh border- 

 ing shires. It occurred at the commencement of the last 

 hunting season, and I give the account of it in his own 

 words, quoted from a letter lately written to me : — 



" The first day we were out with the hounds (I think 

 2oth October), we ran a fox to ground after a long day's 

 run. The terrier, Old Caesar, as good a one as ever ran, 

 got in after him ; and though we waited and dug till dark, 

 there were no signs of him or the fox. Next morning I 



