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Chapter 8 OF THE FOX AND OF HIS NATURE

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the vixen of the fox bears as long as the bitch of the wolf bears her whelps, sometimes more sometimes less, save that the vixen fox whelpeth under the earth deeper than do

her hole, for sometimes she whelpeth in a false hole and sometimes in great burrows and sometimes in hollow trees, and therefore she draweth always

urbervile (p. 188) is

is defence, for he is too feeble, and if he does, it is because he is (forced to) by the strength of men and hounds. And he will always hold to covert, and if he can only find a briar to cover himself with, he will cover himself with that. When he sees that he cannot last, then he goeth to earth the nearest he can find which he knoweth well and the

ays, "because the hou

hunt him closer. He says that one-third of the hounds should be put in to draw the covert, and the others in relays should guard the boundaries and paths, to be slipped as required. Although this is a Frenchman's account of fox-hunting, we have no reason to believe that the fox was treated at that period better by English sportsmen, for until comparatively recent times the fox was accounted vermin, and any means by which his death could be encompassed were consi

best meat that he most loveth are hens, capons, duck and young geese and other wild fowls when he can get them, also butterflies and grasshoppers, milk and butter. They do great harm in warrens of coneys and of hares which they eat, and take them so gynnously (cunningly) and with great malice and not by running. There be some that hunt as a wolf96 and some that go nowhere but to villages to seek the prey for their feeding. As I have said they are so cunning and subtle that neither men nor hounds can find a remedy to keep themselves from their false turns. Also foxes commonly

not read that some are hunted like wolves

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Contents

Chapter 1 THE PROLOGUE Chapter 2 OF THE HARE AND OF HER NATURE Chapter 3 OF THE HART AND HIS NATURE Chapter 4 OF THE BUCK AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 5 OF THE ROE AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 6 OF THE WILD BOAR AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 7 OF THE WOLF AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 8 OF THE FOX AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 9 OF THE GREY (BADGER) AND OF HIS NATURE Chapter 10 OF THE (WILD) CAT AND ITS NATURE Chapter 11 THE OTTER AND HIS NATURE
Chapter 12 OF THE MANNER AND HABITS AND CONDITIONS OF HOUNDS
Chapter 13 OF SICKNESSES OF HOUNDS AND OF THEIR CORRUPTIONS
Chapter 14 OF RUNNING HOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 15 OF GREYHOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 16 OF ALAUNTES AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 17 OF SPANIELS AND OF THEIR NATURE
Chapter 18 OF THE MASTIFF AND OF HIS NATURE
Chapter 19 WHAT MANNER AND CONDITION A GOOD HUNTER SHOULD HAVE.
Chapter 20 HOW THE KENNEL FOR THE HOUNDS AND THE COUPLES FOR THE RACHES AND THE ROPES FOR THE LYMER SHOULD BE MADE
Chapter 21 HOW THE HOUNDS SHOULD BE LED OUT TO SCOMBRE
Chapter 22 HOW A HUNTER'S HORN SHOULD BE DRIVEN
Chapter 23 HOW A MAN SHOULD LEAD HIS GROOM IN QUEST FOR TO KNOW A HART BY HIS TRACE
Chapter 24 HOW A MAN SHOULD KNOW A GREAT HART BY THE FUMES177
Chapter 25 HOW A MAN SHOULD KNOW A GREAT HART BY THE PLACE WHERE HE HATH FRAYED HIS HEAD
Chapter 26 HOW THE ORDINANCE SHOULD BE MADE FOR THE HART HUNTING BY STRENGTH AND HOW THE HART SHOULD BE HARBOURED
Chapter 27 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BY THE SIGHT
Chapter 28 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BETWEEN THE PLAINS AND THE WOOD
Chapter 29 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST IN THE COPPICE AND THE YOUNG WOOD
Chapter 30 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST IN GREAT COVERTS AND STRENGTHS
Chapter 31 HOW A HUNTER SHOULD QUEST IN CLEAR SPIRES AND HIGH WOOD198
Chapter 32 HOW A GOOD HUNTER SHALL GO IN QUEST TO HEAR THE HARTS BELLOW
Chapter 33 HOW THE ASSEMBLY THAT MEN CALL GATHERING SHOULD BE MADE BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER AFTER THE GUISE OF BEYOND THE SEA
Chapter 34 HOW THE HART SHOULD BE MOVED WITH THE LYMER AND RUN TO AND SLAIN WITH STRENGTH
Chapter 35 HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD SEEK AND FIND THE HARE WITH RUNNING HOUNDS AND SLAY HER WITH STRENGTH
Chapter 36 OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE MANNER OF HUNTING WHEN THE KING WILL HUNT IN FORESTS OR IN PARKS FOR THE HART WITH BOWS AND GREYHOUNDS AND STABLE
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