. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ASOLTT CQUJ^TRY LTPE. 14! Foxes. Per: ITotirds. FOXES. Tlicsc wild animals arc great agricul- tural depredatois, carrying off with im- punity young lambs from the sheepfold and chickens from the poultry-yard, and M'ould speedily be exterminated from this country, as wolves were in the reign of the Edwards, but for their providing Ihe most fashionable sport of t
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ASOLTT CQUJ^TRY LTPE. 14! Foxes. Per: ITotirds. FOXES. Tlicsc wild animals arc great agricul- tural depredatois, carrying off with im- punity young lambs from the sheepfold and chickens from the poultry-yard, and M'ould speedily be exterminated from this country, as wolves were in the reign of the Edwards, but for their providing Ihe most fashionable sport of the times. As matters stand foxes are sufficiently preser^•ed in those numerous coverts that appear on all large landed estates to provide ample sport for the red-coats in those numerous meets which periodi- cally take ])lace all over the kingdom. Large fiirmers are often as great lovers of the pastime as the rural gentiy, and do not, as a rule, set themselves against the presen'ation of these wild animals. The vulpine family are highly gifted •with instinct, and know how to dodge their pursuers in the chase. Sports- men often declare that they know how the scent lies ; and certain it is they slum meadows and pasture fields, and wend their way to ploughed fields which, being drier at the surface, favours scent least. POX-GLOVE (Digitalis purpura). A medical plant, the leaves and seeiis of which are used as powder, tincture, and for infusion. FOX HOUNDS. Pedigree in these is all essential. It is a paramount object to breed from hounds whose gootl propensities are known to have been handed down from a remote ancestor. "We are told all about it in " jNIeynellian Science, or Foxhunting upon System," an instruc- tive book issued by a friend and com- panion of the late Mr. Mcynell, one of the most renowned of foxhunters. " Mr. MejTel!," says the author, "con- sidered one of the important objects in breeding hounds was to combine strength with beauty a
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