Outing . fury, which werebagged by the owner of the bitch, whosaid he should make her suckle was laughed at as impossible ; how-ever, the man was positive and had thecubs. The master of hounds some daysafter bought that terrier bitch with thecubs, which she acted as foster mother to,and reared until they were able to shiftfor themselves, the curious part of thestory being that the terriers own whelpswere five weeks old and the cubs couldscarcely see when the exchange of prop-erty took place. I have myself seen a case in the presentseason of a foxhound bitch rearing alitter of fox cub
Outing . fury, which werebagged by the owner of the bitch, whosaid he should make her suckle was laughed at as impossible ; how-ever, the man was positive and had thecubs. The master of hounds some daysafter bought that terrier bitch with thecubs, which she acted as foster mother to,and reared until they were able to shiftfor themselves, the curious part of thestory being that the terriers own whelpswere five weeks old and the cubs couldscarcely see when the exchange of prop-erty took place. I have myself seen a case in the presentseason of a foxhound bitch rearing alitter of fox cubs. Animals that in threemonths time she will be called upon tohunt and do to death ! I once saw afrightful-looking incident while had had a very good run over a roughcountry, when our fox was so hard driventhat he dodged on to the edge of a pre-cipitous rock. One of our terriers espiedhim, and making a dash at him both wentheadlong over the point. I was belowand saw the occurrence. The fox made. PARAMOUNT. FLYCATCHER. 97 no attempt to save himself, and fell be-tween sixty and one hundred feet to thebottom, where he lay dying when I gotto him. The terrier, however, seemed tocling marveloLisly to every projection onthe rocks, as he fell over and over, andwhen he reached the bottom was able tocreep away, and soon recovered. Stories of terriers, many of which havecome under my own eyes, could be multi- plied ad infinitum.^ but I refrain fromwearying your readers by spinning toolong a yarn. Suffice it to say man hasin the fox terrier a four-footed friendthat is always reliable, plucky and ac-tive ; and if the half of us emulated thegood qualities that we admire in him, howmuch more worthy should we be of thegood opinion of those whom we desire tothink well of us. Borderer. jMTmTrnTiTrTryrTni\MTr;TiTrr!WiimiT^
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