# The Life of a Fox, Written by Himself Author: Smith, Thomas, 1790-1878; Willoughby de Broke, Richard Greville Verney, baron, 1869-1923 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851 [Illustrator] Genre: Category: Humour Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58769 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Life+of+a+Fox%2C+Written+by+Himself+Smith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary No Master of Foxhounds, alive or dead, has a greater right to be heard than Mr. Thomas Smith. “The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” and though it is not altogether true that the proof of the ability to show sport is the number of Foxes’ noses on the kennel door, the fact that Mr. Smith killed ninety Foxes in ninety-one days’ hunting in a Country which has no great reputation as a scenting country, is a piece of evidence in favour of his knowledge of woodcraft, and of his skill in applying it, which cannot be gainsaid, the more particularly when we take into account the epoch during which this remarkable feat was achieved. It is true that Mr. Smith hunted Hounds when the modern syst... ## Chapters - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-a-fox-written-by-himself-58769/chapters/8/index.md)