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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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scent and we driveour jack hard. He is hustled more and more, andthe easy canter becomes a stretching gallop. Thejack realises that the hounds mean business. When,however, he finds matters are serious he turns back,and now—sure sign that he is growing tired—he beginsto dodge and twice nearly gets away. Once thehounds strike the fresh line of a wild cat in a patchof sugarcane. Puss, however, solves the difficultyby going into a tree and the pack once more comeback to the line. Once a little scentless gracefulIndian fox springs up in view, but the amateurwhipper-in gets to their heads smartly. Again a freshjack comes out of a sugarcane crop and the fieldbegin to holloa. Luckily the Master views thehunted one, and a touch on the horn brings outGambler, Senator, Victory, and one or two more,while the others fly to the deep notes of the twodog hounds (Victory, though useful, is almost mute).Now the jack is hard pressed, and hounds, whohave driven him right through an old walled garden,
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COUSIN JACK 197 have a long start. Once back in the familiar covert,he exhausts every dodge known to his kind. Hecrawls in the ditches and slinks along until he isactually running a few yards behind the pack. Hedodges to a small patch of standing corn, and whenthe hounds are in the corn he is in the covert, whenthe hounds are in the covert he is in the corn, andso he plays a kind of game of hide-and-seek. At lasthe runs a few yards out and lies down. Two or threehounds run up to him, but touch him not. Old Victoryand Gambler fear nothing. Did they not once tryto tackle a wild boar with disastrous results ? Who-whoop ! Not a bad morning, since for about fortyminutes out of the three hours we galloped hard overa rough country. Hounds, say some people, will notbreak up a jackal, but ours will with a little help.The jack is killed. A hunting-knife makes anincision or two, and he is thrown to the hounds andthey break him up fairly—that old sleeping partnerof the chase, Rollicker, who has

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  • booksubject:Foxes
  • booksubject:Hunting
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  • bookpublisher:_Bombay___Longmans__Green__and_Co_
  • bookcontributor:Webster_Family_Library_of_Veterinary_Medicine
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