The life of a fox written by himself . and fairercountry. Great changes are going on in the hunt-ing of the country which I left; and should we 78 THE LIFE OF A FOX ever meet again there may be much for me to the present I have done, We now look to thee, Warwick, to give ussomething good ; thy country has produced one ofthe most extraordinary men that ever lived. Heknew all the wiles of the wiliest creature that walksthe earth. Dost thou think that Shakespearewould have been a good huntsman ? By the faith of a fox I should have been mostloath to try him. Did he possess the followingqu
The life of a fox written by himself . and fairercountry. Great changes are going on in the hunt-ing of the country which I left; and should we 78 THE LIFE OF A FOX ever meet again there may be much for me to the present I have done, We now look to thee, Warwick, to give ussomething good ; thy country has produced one ofthe most extraordinary men that ever lived. Heknew all the wiles of the wiliest creature that walksthe earth. Dost thou think that Shakespearewould have been a good huntsman ? By the faith of a fox I should have been mostloath to try him. Did he possess the followingqualities : boldness, perseverance, activity, enter-prise, temper, and decision ? Had he a keen per-ception of relative place ? Had he a good eyeand ear ? If he had all these, and more, thenmight Shakespeare have been an immortal fox-hunter. It is little that I have seen in this country,and I have little to tell; but I will at once proceedand state to what cause I attribute my escape onone or two occasions lately. ..^>MliMi WARWICKS. STORY N the month of Marchlast I was lying in astrong gorse - covert,not far from Nune-ham, when after hear-ing the voice ofStephens, the hunts-man to the Atherstone ^ hounds, I heard thefollowing remarks by one sportsman to another,both being on horseback and waiting close towhere I was in my kennel. Well, I do hate that silent system; hadRobert not been so sparing of his voice, or had heonly given one blast of his horn when he begandrawing the small spinney just now, the hounds Stephens was huntsman of the Warwickshire, not the Atherstone,pack.—^Ed. 80 THE LIFE OF A FOX would not have chopped that vixen in cub ; forvixens in that state are unable to run far, and areunapt to move till pressed to do so by the approachof danger. She probably had been so much usedto see the keeper and his dogs pass, that, nothearing the huntsmans voice or horn, she wastaken by surprise when the hounds got round her;if she had moved before, she might have been seen
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