While in the excitement of first fright, the fox would run fast for a mile or two, till he found it an easy matter to keep out of the way of the hounds.

Then he, cunning creature, would begin to bother them.

He would mount to the top pole of the worm fence dividing the fields from the woods.

He could trot along here quite a distance and then make a long jump into the woods.

The hounds would come up, but could not walk the fence, and they would have difficulty in finding where the fox had left it.