THE FOX
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia.,—To those who have read in your issue of the 16th ult.
the little sketch, " The Fox," the follow:-:-; extract from a De Coverley essay, published in the Spec.'4or on July 13th,
1710, may be of interest :-
" They were now within eight yards of that game which they had been pursuing for almost as many hours, yet on the signal they all made a sudden stand. . . . At the same time Sir Roger rode forward, and alighting took up the hare in his arms ; which he soon delivered to one of his servants, with an order, if she could be kept alive, to let her go in his great orchard. . . . I was highly pleased to see the discipline of the pack, and the good nature of the Knight, who could not find it in his heart to murder a creature that had given him so much diversion."
The Beacon, Burkes Road, 'Beaconsfield.
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