The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1886-02-17
4 woNDERTUL rox.uUNr.
a Good Story Told on Somo Amateu,
Hunters.

" teeth. Tn old gentleman, how
ever, had q fancy for the place and used
10 come hume with a whole string OF
horses beh nd him as the revenue of
his princil atty. But we boys, and in
deed all cur friends, used to look for
ward kcenly to the annual excursion
to the mo, mains. My father had q
pack of hounds of which he was eX-
cccdingly proud, and with which he
would hunt foxes 1T home, and deer
when we went to --- county. a
long cavalcade it used to be that every
October started from this door for the
mountains. My father and one of his
old crOnies in the big carriage, two
wagons full OF prOvCnder, ammunitiou,
blankets, etc, and fifteen o. twenty
friends aud ~serynnts,' mountcd on sad
dle~horseS aln the year. The ninety
miles used, to give us three DAYS Of
travelling, and at the end our noun
t aincer tenants used to throng o meet
us at the rude S~hootin9-bux with
storicsof deer and STAR" wonderful
to listen to, and with eyes looking
wistfully at the corner where the WINS.
key jar always stood. | could fill the
night with stories of the odd ways aud
curious, simple lives OF these noun
taineers, though mono of them were
such curiosities as old lake, nv fathers
negro huutsman. Caleb here was his
nephew, and helped him as u boy with
the dogs, and moreover is the g%randc-t
liar we have in these parts. He's sit
a. ting UP with the horse, SO We'll cali
him and make him give you aspccimcn
Before we turn in. Caleb, these gen
tlemen want to hearabout Un5le Jake's
great Christmas foX-chasc.
SLOr' me. Mnr'Sn CncOrUp. them ar
times done gone so long now, l mos
disremember all bout 'cm."
"Why, it's not six weeks since |
caught you telling those New York
gentlemen in the stable; let's have it
now without any variations.'
"Wcll, gen'Imens, it wur some ff-
teen or twenty years bcfo' s'rendcr,
when | wur just a chap sorter helpin'
roun.' Uncle Jake, now the ole ledge,
that is Mar'se Georges pa, had been
fooled ever so many times By an ole
red in Cartcr,s mountain, not Il great
ways from yer, aud got sortcr mad
with the dogs, and old Jake, who
loved dem ar hounds jes' Us il they'd
bin folks, wore he cotch that fox if il
took him the whole of Christmas week
to do it in. The jedSc he had Il b:g
dlnin' o quality on Christmas Day, an'
ole Jake Inc jest slipped of witt the
hounds bout day in the mornin' and
struck that toX's trail right to onst.
"He'd got sorler used to dc ole red,
- and knowed what line he'd take, fo'
sho' He never went far from home,
but jcs' kept gwinc on rom and roun,'
more like II gray fox. Bout dinner
time L guy over, as the p!ow-mulc on
which L q d began to get kinder
PLAYED OUT but ole Uncle Jake had
taken the best horse in the stable, and
Jes' pitched right OF near the hounds,
who were all the time on the scent,
maxim a heap o. fuss.
"After dinner took another horse
and slipped out to see if could near
anything o the ole man, an there sho'
nutf the hounds were travelling roun'
the mountain where they'd first found
the fox. | soon cotclcd 'cm and KEEP
along with Uncle Jake, till SHUTDOWN,
and. when | began to talk bout gwine
home TO- dark the ole man jes' ripped
and cussed, and said he'd stay wild dal
ar fox till the new year fo' he'd let
him go.
"Well,% genTmcns, I jes' thotc he'd
got may be Il ticker o. whisky in his
pocket, and was sorter uppish on that
account, SO left him my fresh horse an
hoNtSS VI idtlICt IC'l3 III ~ liltlIt. III
the morning when | went round 10 the
stables and quarters, I didn't see no
honndS, Gor horse, nor yet no Uncle
Jake. So says |, I'll jcs' put III" sad
die on the gray, and Il ponc o. corn
bread and some meat in my pocket,
and slip out and see if the ole mans
still at it.
SH'NVell, sirs, | rode roun' till near
midday, when suddenly secs Il dog
cross the road bcto' me, then Il whole
string along, and | sees Jumper
-Frolic-Beauty, and the rest of'them;
you could most sec through 'cm they
were SO thin, and though they had
their mouths open, and WAS tryin' to
raise a bit OF Il fus IS it warn't no man
ner o'use.
81 knew Uncle Jake waru't far be-
hind, and presently, sho' huff, there
was n rustlin' in the wood, and he
cum out right agin, the m%iscrablcst
sight yon ever seed. He didn' pear
to notice me much 'eept just to slip Off
his horse and git OH mine. | put the
pone o. bread an the meat i'm his
pocket: an he went lopin' Off after the
dogs ori-the colt! 's
"There .wur no show fur inc but to
git home with the mar, who looked as
. INV ShCN NlOp uClu III nCG Trucks.
idursn't fool with no mo- horses, am
Ajes' quietly sot up for Uncle Jake that
. night, but durn me if it warnt for
nothin'; two o the hounds cum
sneakin' i'm bout sundownI but that
wur all.
81 Next mornin' | went to ole mar'sc,
the jedge, and he an The accompany with
thotelt a'mighty good joke, and the
biggest kind of n crowd startrd ont to
look for the chase. There wur nothin'
left to hear, and it wur about eleven
O'Clock he struck right in agin the
whole gang, and | wur with him, or
no II wonld believe, gen'Pmcns, what
/ tell you now, for, to' God, sar, the |
fox wur walkin', the hounds wnr
wa!kin', an Old Jake on tho colt. war
Walkin', all within twenty steps of one
another.
t.'Lord! you should ha' seen the ole |
lodge. / thote he'd ADJUST hissolf with |