It was a bag-fox day, I believe: that is, the hunt was provided with a trapped animal, brought upon the ground in a sack and let out when the proper time came, -- a process known in sporting parlance as "shaking a fox." ❋ Various (N/A)
Kinglake used to say that in conceding the right of the Sultan to exclude any war-flag from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, Russia was treating Turkey as a bag-fox, to be gently hunted occasionally, but not mangled or killed; and he felt keenly the ridicule resting on the allies, who were compelled to surrender the neutralization purchased at the cost of so much blood and treasure. ❋ Tuckwell, Rev W (1902)
To add zest to the chase, Clem now let Looney slip as a kind of bag-fox, and the half-witted creature went lumbering and blubbering about in real terror of his life, whilst his pursuers encouraged his speed with artifices in which the animated spinnies and coverts deferentially joined. ❋ Henry W. Nevinson (1900)
Dardanelles, Russia was treating Turkey as a bag-fox, to be gently hunted occasionally, but not mangled or killed; and he felt keenly the ridicule resting on the allies, who were compelled to surrender the neutralization purchased at the cost of so much blood and treasure. ❋ William Tuckwell (1874)
Hardington road, hedge-rows ceased, and they came upon Farleyfair Downs, across which Mr. Watchorn now struck, making for a square plantation, near the first hill-top, where it had been arranged the bag-fox should be shook. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)
Jawleyford was a great patron of the chase; and his keeper, Watson, always had a bag-fox ready to turn down when my lord's hounds met there. ❋ Robert Smith Surtees (1833)
"No," replied Davoren; "he, too, has disappeared; and although he is hunted like a bag-fox, nobody can find either hilt or hair of him." ❋ William Carleton (1831)
They found the bag-fox, and had a tolerable run; but when they killed him, not a hound would eat him! ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
'Do you think,' said he, 'I will allow my hounds to hunt a bag-fox? ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
But whatever you do, never turn out a bag-fox; it is injurious to your hounds, and makes them wild and unsteady: besides, nothing is more despicable, or held in greater contempt by real sportsmen, than the practice of hunting bag-foxes. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
It is rather extraordinary, but nevertheless a well-known fact, that a pack of hounds, which are in sport and blood, will not eat a bag-fox. ❋ Edward Jesse (1824)
That was a make-believe thing, compared with this; there was no surprise, no suspense, no unexpectedness -- it was as inferior to this wild nutting, as the turning out of a bag-fox is to unearthing the fellow, in the eyes of a staunch foxhunter. ❋ Mary Russell Mitford (1821)
Fifteen or twenty minutes is as long 'as I (hould ever with a bag-fox to run, that is defigned. for blood: — the hounds (hould then go home. ❋ Unknown (1796)
Mr. Nerbers was driving home one day when he hit a moose. He became extremely horny at the prospects of Fox Bagging his wife with said moose. He drove home, [dead moose] in tow, with a [full boner].
Note: Mr. Nerbers is a Fox Bagging aficionado. He has experimented with various animals including but not limited to Frogs, Orcas, a [White-faced] Saki Monkey, and a Star-nosed Mole. Mr. Nerbers' only unsuccessful attempt at Fox Bagging was with a Level 4 Kaiju in 2009. ❋ OriginalPrankster99 (2013)
