Daily Republican., 1881-11-22
The CUNNING sEAsOH,
Noses Tskea From shs Vessb.
alary Of Three Sporting Young
Mem, After . Woek's 6unning
TrlD.

Three young men, of this city, starte,
on Saturday, the 10Th inst, for an OK
tended cunning trip, of a week
duration. in Cecil Co., Md. The party
left here in the morning, on the Della
ware train, with guns aud smmuni.
ton, contemplating a profitable trip
They proceeded to Middletown, from
whence they proceeded across the line
about ten miles, on foot, to Ceci!ton. Al
they did not care to enter into the spor,
until Monday morning, they bus cd
themselves in looking around. The
gentleman whom they stopped
thinking they II light be "little green, y
took them out and showed them the
pigs, calves, chickens, ETC., and ex-
planned to them that they were not
partridges, and to be careful and rot
shoot them. They gazed at them for a
long time until they had them sutfi.
ciently in their mind eye to distin.
guish them from the proper game they
were in quest of. Early on Monday
morning they were up with the lark
and started out on q long hunt. They
trudged on and on, but saw very little
at which to take aim. Becoming tired
they made camp fire and sat down to
rest and partook Of a lunch. They
kept this march up for five days, CON-
ing home ut night and spending their
evening in the society Of the ladies of
Cecil Co., Of whom they speak in glow
ing terms. The amount of the game
secured consisted of one rabbit, one
partridge, one lark and two squirrels.
Upon their arrival home, the following
notice was handed to Reporter of the
REPUBLICAN, in which they censure
some one for reporting game plenty,
they failing to find it so abundant.
"Sportsmen arriving from thePeninsula
report large numbers Of ducks on the
Chesapeake and Susquchanna Hats;
and lovers of The canvas back, keep up
continuous banging in quest of the
favorite bird" "Ihe party named III
the f)regoiNg part of this narrative
have Just returned from n weeks gun
nisg in Cecil Co, and report game not
very abundant in that locality. They
found, however, the female population
of Cecilton more numerous and are in
clined to believe that the Cecil ladies
had somethi ng to do with the above
report.
This statement is a little exaggerated
and the question naturally ARISES
among their many friends in this city,
especially the ladies'; "Did they 60
cunning after rabbits, birds, etc, or
did they 90 to visit the ladies of Cecil
Cor This question can only De
solved by the parties in question, and
az their game WAS not plentiful, the
question looks very dark against
them.
They express themselves with hav-
ing delightful time, however, and are
enthusiastic in their praise of their
hosptablc Maryland friends.
While on their visit two or three
ladies' in this city, frleuls ofthe party,
hearing of their too frequent intimacy
With the ladies' of Cccll Co., thought
they would play joke on one of them.
They accordingly procured large,
paste-b, ard box, stuffed it with Ola
papers, au old high hat, several teI'
hats and numerous other things. They
did it up nicely and expressed it to
them. 1t arrived safe, costing The
receiver 40 cents expressags, and wheI
he openei it he acknowledged that ht
was sold.
During their stay In Cecilton they
stopped at the house where judge
David Davis, President pro tenn. of th'
Senate, formerly resided