in England from Holy^Rood day , eili tki 
dnmnciaiion. In New- England they make 
beft {jport in the depch of winter : they laf 
a fledg'loid of Cods^hsads on the other fide 
of a paled fence when the rtioon fhincs, mi 
about nine or ten of the clock the Foxes 
come toit^ Ibitietimes two or three, or half 
a doienjand more , thefe they fhoot^ and hj 
that time they have cafcd them^ there will 
be as many . So they continue fiiooting 
and killing o( Foxes as ltog as ths mocm 
fhinerh ; I have known half a fcorc kilPd 
in one nights Their piiles are bonie like a 
doggs, their fat liquified and put into the 
carseafeth the pain, their tails or buflies are 
very fair ones and of good ,ufe, but theif 
skins are fo thiri f yet thick fet with deep 
furr ) that they will hardly hold the diet 
faccals there be abundtnce, which is a 
Creature muich like a F<?x,but fmaller, they 
are very frequent in PaUftinay or the Hot^' 
land. 
The T^olf feeketh his tnatc and goes a 
clicketing at the fame icafon with Foxes;md 
bring forth their whelps as they do, but 
their kennels are under thick bufhes by 
great Trees in remote places by the fwaitipsj 
he is^ to be hunted the F^x (torn Holy* 
rood day till the AnnmcidtioH^ But there 
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