The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-03-05
Correspondence Of The Cecil Whig.



Mr. EDITOR -" This bsin RAINY day"
as " d Fly says. III Try and send you :"
something" for The Wing. Fox hunting
here, As in nnmNer six. is the principle muse.
mint There WAS to have been a hunt at
this place to day but owing to the incl,mencv
OF the weather presume 1t is postponed in
Ultimately.
By the way the aforesaid D. Fly is in error
n regard to the fox jumping in at Andy
Job window, and TO IA, lin and all others
night h'fore the reading public THE readers
of the Uh'g ! mean and " ho does not read
Tie 'h2 q ! will proceed in as h!it L
manner As possible to Civ" you an account Of
the capture CHAT is the first aud principle
capture) Of the Rrynarl aforesaid (which
took place among the wild and romantic hills
# the bright and rushing Octoraro some three
or more weeks ago.
Rutful indeed must have been his feelings
and sud and desp"ndng his heart when, after
week S imprisonment. he a freedom fox
was turned loose to make his escape on three
legs only, from the " Classic Ground " of the
Brick Meeting House !" There's reader don
smile, II tell you after while why il s classic,
and not only classic but consfcralen ground.
But to return 10 my story il story ii can be
called, that has neither beginning. middle nor
end rs yet and that like many another one
which has been sald or stang, might perhaps
have been better left un>a;I or un>ung. But
am not done yet, and this like something
Burns once wrote, may turn oJt song, or.
perhaps, a sermon, ere bring 1t to a TENN.
nation. So to return to Rcynard who VIC
left some time ago trying to escape on three
legs. lie, poor fellow, guided by his natural
instinct took up his line of march far his
native hills, doubtless thinking (f fox can
think } that if he once reached them he would
be comparatively safe among their, shall
say, mountain fasinesses.' But the clam
orons pack were on bis trail and being in
somewhat similar circumstances to the Hare
that Gray, Il think it was Gray y once wrote
poem about he stopped at the Darn-yard
and Of Mr.. job, no doubt like Grays Hare
to impore the mcrciful interference and Iro-
lection of Some of his Supposed friends. -
Eul ere his petitions were made much less
anSwcrtd-the swift footed hounds were up
on him and s.raightwny commenced one Of
the most mrear,hly, and puhaps to a strong
nclved man, one of the most ludicrous scenes
Imaginable. Horses nciehcd and snoIt,d {:
cattle broke down stalls and stable doors and
barnya'd gates and snorted too pigs squeal-
'd, Siittp Dltattu, C'EhS crew. men hallOWVu,
and some say they swore just a little too
In the midst Of all this Reyna,d made his
way from the barn.yard TO an old deserted
smith shop in the vicinity, and such was the
gene al confusion he would doubtless have
made his escape from the hounds, had not
one Of the hunters, thinking they we've after
him (lhe foxy and that he could perhaps pre-
vent the catastrophy likely to take place if
they came up with the fox. started for the
shop aforesaid. The hounds followed and
thus were de Gated the kindly promptings Of
one of the most philanthropc of hearts. -
Thus was consumated a fou wrong on the
person Of n free denizen of the primcval hills
and forests Of Ortoraro. I do hope ID. Fly
will not be offended at being put right before
the public, and that no one else will be offend.
cd at me for writing an accoun. o: tie hunt
aforesaid: fol the purpose afolcnamcd. Ac-
tuat,d as was by the laudabe desire of Civ
ing to Caesar the things that belong to him ::
in other words of showing that the glory of
that hunt belonged to tbs OH District and
not to the 9th.
Ihis place, as yon are n ware Mr.. Editor.
Is very ancient place, it being one of tie
earliest settlements Of Friends in the state,
pei hnps in the county. Tradition states that
the first settlers here landed at Phi!ade lphia
and started up Schuylkil river TILL they reach
the great valley and went west along 1t for
some time but net liking its appearance they