Daily national Democrat., 1859-11-01
A Glorious Hunt.


vehicle, they "roled out" Arriving at the
hunting ground, some eight or ten miles from
the city, they halted. unhilched their ami
mails, tied them to tree, which formed a
pleasant shelter from the sun, and prepared
for the excursion. R. and IL. mated in one
couple, and b. and B. in another while G. B.
sauntercd out 10y himself
r. and II. had not gone more than half
mile, before they started mp large hare. AS
it jumped from a thick pile of brush, R.
"whaled away" at it with one barrel, and
missed it about a foot He then "crneked
away" with the other and missed it about
three. Informing H.. who was off short
distance, tlat he had badly crippled the ami
NAL. but that il was useless to follow it, as it
would run ten miles on three legs before it
would stop. they proceeded on their tramp.
A few hundred yards further, another hare
jumped up In few feet Of r. and he blazed
away ht him. missing him about six inches
He soon repeated" upon him, with the other
barrel, with like effect Stating to II. that
nothing ever saved that quadruped but the
brWsh that was in the way-it was n clear
space they logged on. They had not pro
ceeded far. when another hare individual
emerged with incredible Alacrity, from n
bunch of bushes, and went off at 2;40 rate.
"There he goes, said r., pointing in the d.
rec,ion in which he ran. but, just then, the
hare turned and took an opposite course II.
pulled trigger in the direction in which r.
had first pointed, and tore up the ground
with q small cannonading of shot. Pushing
frantically forward to see what damage he
had done, Of course he saw nothing. Swear
ing he had "just as good an aim on that hare
as he ever had on anything in his life, but
that the gun sorter hung fire, he proceeded to
reload. Meantime the hare had left, with
out giving r. any chance at him. Pursuing
their course. they soon "rousted" another
quadruped Of the genus tepus. and the way
he did leap was caution. II. fired both bar
rels at him, and snapped at him the third
time before he remembered that there were
no more loads in the gun. r. also tried his
hand on him, and broke his leg. The next
shot. he took him through the ears. Loadng
up in grent haste he made chase and found
him crouched in a small cump Of trees. The
fugitive again sprung 10 his feet. at pretty
nimble gait for three legs. but r. took good
aim and upset him. Remembering his fame
as hunter, he now concluded to be less care.
less in his shooting, and not to waste any
more ammunition. He also resolved to disa
buse II. of an unfavorable idea which the lat
ter began to entertain OF his ability as MIN
rod; II. himself making no pretensions to
being anything more than an ordinary
marksman. The two had not meandered far,
when two hnres jumped up at once, and ran
in opposite directions r. cup and down'd
one, with one barrel, and, quicker than light
ming, wheeled and slew the other. IL. begar
to open his eyes. Pretty soon, another har,
jumped up Immediately behind r. Withou
wheeling, for he hadn't time. r. swung hi
gund aroun over his left shoulder, slanted hi
eye backwards along the barrel and pulled
trigger The hare turned three complete
somersaults, and was numbered with the dead
II. opened his eyes still wider. The next one
that jumped up r. fired at him with one
hand, not putting the gun TO his shoulder al
all, and laid him out as dead ns the Leeomp-
ton Constitution. lIs eyes still stretched
perceptLly. The next thing aroused wai
another hare. r. turned so suddenly thai
he fell, and landed completely on his back
Without waiting to get up, for he hadn't
time, he rested his gun on the toe of his lef
foot and banged away. Another miracle haC
been wrought-the hare was dead and II
was aStonished, if such word can express
the sensation which possessed him. BY thi
time r. thought that game enough had beer
captured. Accordingly he and II, concluded
to wend their way back to the wagon
When within half a mile Of the vehicle har
lenped out of bunch Of grass, and ran in
direction just behind the two hunters.
large brush happened to be directly betwee
r. and the hare, so that he could not shoe
at him in standing posture He thought {
kneeling down SO as to shoot under the limb
but, wishing to save time. he turned his bac
on the bush and the hare, stuck the gun OF
posteriorily between his legs, looked unde
at the retreating animal, and in that position
a Ia Zoudpe, 'let loose" with both barrels
When the smoke and dust cleared away, tn
quadruped was found laid out like wet rag
Ii. now fully acknowledged that he had neve
seen any hunting before. He had heard of il
but he had never seen it, till now.
B. and b., meantime. had awakened tn
woods with their double barrels as if pitch
ed battle had been fought between two arm
les, G. d. in another direction alternatin
like some isolated fertilization throwin
bombs and shells into the ranks Of one or tn
other OF the contending hosts The result q
this cannonading was one hare which acci
dentally came within range, one bewildere,
yellow-hammer, and one owl which, blinde
by the daylight, got entangled among tn
shot, and fell a victim, as wiser than owi
have done before. to his short-sightedness.
This general firing was varied by seer
which loses its relish by the narration. Or
ofthe Bs-not G. B.-but one Of the others
shot at a hare, as he passed in dine consteI
nation from the surrounding uproar. an
missing him, about ten feet. was informed b
his con panion that the game was badl
wounded, and would soon fall and be captu