Identifier: foxdale00dale (find matches)
Title: The fox
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Dale, T. F. (Thomas Francis), 1858-1923
Subjects: Foxes Hunting
Publisher: London New York Bombay : Longmans, Green, and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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te clear that foxes, whenhunted, will not go into a country where there are norefuges. They may, and indeed do, go foraging wherethere are no fox haunts or shelters, but they do notrun to them as a rule. I can only recall two instances, in my own ex-perience or in reading, of foxes travelling except withsome covert or refuge in their minds. Once manyyears ago, with the Southwold, I recollect a fox goingaway with five couple of hounds from Tumby Wood.The Master was with them, one whipper-in, and thelate Rev. Edward Rawnsley, a rider to hounds whohad fine hands and good judgment. He was seldomleft when hounds ran. The line was over the fencountry, flat, open grass-fields, divided by enormousdrains. The fox ran the bridges made for the cattleto pass over, and his followers jumped the draw-railswhich divided the bridges from the fields. The foxwas killed on the outskirts of some farm buildings. But doubtless he was like that fox in the lateDuke of Beauforts time that disappeared near some
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THE FOX WAS SEEN TO SWIM BACK HOME AND HAUNTS OF THE FOX 87 outhouses and was seen later to jump out of apigstye. In both cases the fox was probably accustomedto forage round the farm, and perhaps to lie up insome convenient and unsuspected corner of the stack-yard or barns. These, however, are exceptions, andunless there are quiet coverts to be found, foxes willnot cross certain lines of country. Fox-haunts are of three kinds. Woodlands, whichneed no care except judicious planting, if they are keptquiet. Where game is preserved this is of course done,and foxes swarm if treated fairly. Indeed, it may besaid that if foxes are not found in preserved game-coverts they have been destroyed. The late Duke ofBeaufort relates in his Diary that Mr. Garland (Mr.Holfords keeper) has had twenty-one litters of cubsin two years, and in 1856 the Badminton Houndskilled eleven and a half brace of foxes on Mr.Holfords property. The Stoneleigh coverts are alsoinstances of well-preserved pheasant-coverts

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