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of losing his prey. Dogs often will go hunting on their own hook, they go regularly to cover scent & start the Fox give tongue chase him, when Reynard is hotly pursued less he scrambles a tree; the dogs when the Fox is tree'd alters his tongue, then if any hunters be near he makes for the dogs - crack goes the rifle & down tumbles the Fox, & then he get an awful shaking. Opposum, burrows in the ground & the roots or in the hollow of trees, & is a slow travelling animal. He is seldom seen in the day times, and the Negros hunt them at night with dogs. The Opposum takes to the trees, when the tree is cut down & the dogs catch them, the flesh is good. [[crossed out: and the skins}} The Coon is crossed out: caught is hunted like the Opposum, the meat is good, & the skin grows a good fur. Skunk or Pole-Cat. They are of several colours, they are very slow in their movements, & can be shot off horseback, but the fetid odor they exude ^ when chased generally prevents their being taken, except by