Decidedly less poetic was the not altogether obsolete practice of celebrating the death of a fox killed by hounds by toasting the whole of the vulpine species in blood-stained liquor. After a kill, the fox was hung up on a crook at the nearest inn, and quart mugs of liquor were held underneath the dripping mask in which fox-hunting was toasted. A fox’s brush was dipped and squeezed in it to give a zest to the liquor.
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