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manner of postures. When a good run was 

 wanted, a whipper-in would take the social fox, 

 and place it on a pad, so contrived at the horse's 

 crupper, that, there was no danger of his slipping 

 from it. The man would then leave the kennel, 

 and after having ridden to a certain distance from 

 it ; he would get off horseback, and place the tame 

 fox on the ground. Then, remounting his horse, 

 he would canter away, through localities best 

 suited to produce an excellent day's sport : the 

 fox keeping up with him, as though it were a 

 favourite terrier. 



When the hounds in full cry, had advanced 

 sufficiently near, to put the man upon his guard, 

 he would dismount, and having placed the fox in 

 its former situation, he would get on horseback 

 again, and gallop away. This caused the scent 

 to cease, and the chase was no longer pursued. 



Cervantes truly remarks, that the pitcher is 

 carried to the well so many times, and then gets 

 broken. Such was the untimely fate of our poor 

 little Eeynard. One day, whilst the hounds were 

 hard on the scent, somehow or other, the man 

 allowed them to approach too near, and before 

 he could secure his charge, they came up, and 

 having torn the fox in pieces, they ate every 

 morsel of it : — their rage not allowing them to 



