. La natura in downland. ule il farmerdeclines per rendere qualsiasi rivendicazione per gli agnelli distrutto e moglie ifhis invia in una rivendicazione per una dozzina o venti chickenstaken, Lei ottiene un messaggio simpatico, eventualmente un pairof guanti, dal M.F.H., e lì la questione finisce.Ancora, red rascal fa spesso si incontrano con i suoi deserti;ho trovato volpi a midsummer, in fine condizionie con uno splendido cappotto di capelli, che giace morto tra thefurze, e potrebbe solo dire, incurante compagni! Si havegone e procurato morso da un sommatore, e theresan fine di voi. A dispetto dei segugi e sommatori, il Fox continuesonly troppo numerosi. Ho

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. Nature in downland. ule the farmerdeclines to make any claim for lambs destroyed, and ifhis wife sends in a claim for a dozen or twenty chickenstaken, she gets a sympathetic message, possibly a pairof gloves, from the M.F.H., and there the matter ends.Still, the red rascal does often meet with his deserts;I have found foxes at midsummer, in fine conditionand with a splendid coat of hair, lying dead among thefurze, and could only say, Careless fellow! you havegone and got yourself bitten by an adder, and theresan end of you. In spite of hounds and adders, the fox continuesonly too numerous. In the course of one morningswalk I have come upon four foxes in a furzy do^vn, and where I saw four there must have been forty. The badger, too, still exists in some of the roughfurzy spots. At one place in the South Downs Idiscovered an earth in the centre of a large clumpof old furze, mixed with elder bushes, growing on anexceedingly steep slope, where a man could hardlystand upright. In the middle of the clump there. < C 12; o G o WILD LIFE 75 ?were five great holes and an enormous heap of flintsand lumps of hard chalk, many of them weighingsix to seven pounds. These badgers must indeedhave possessed an amazing strength to make theirearth in such a place. The trunks and low horizontalbranches of the elder bushes had been used, someto rub their hide on and some to clean their clay-covered feet, so that some were rubbed smooth andothers plastered with clay. The floors of the burrowsas far doAvn as one could see and feel were thicklycarpeted with freshly gathered moss, carried downto form the nest. It struck me very forcibly when viewing this earth, and thinking of its occupants tremendous power, tenacity, and hardiness, and of his excessive shynessand strictly nocturnal habits, that, in spite of his rarity, he may yet win in the race of life with his morenumerous and protected neighbour, the fox. Thatfox-hunting will eventually die out as a nationalsport in this country is now

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