EARTH
.—A fox beating his pursuers when hunted, and taking refuge under ground, is then said to have earthed, or gone to earth. Some of these earths are situate in old chalk pits, forming such different channels and ramifications amidst the roots of trees in woods and coppices, that it is impossible to dig them out; but where there is the least probability of success, it is never relinquished; upon the established and well-founded principle, that the hounds are always entitled to blood after a GOOD CHASE. A wanton and unnecessary destruction is, however, at no time to be justified, particularly in a country thin of foxes; such unthinking devastation is frequently productive of a blank day at the end of a season.