Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-01
BILL NYE
WRITES FOR A GOOD. DURABLE WILD
FOX,
To be Used for Hunting on His Premises-HB Wild
Ysan for the ScampG Of he Hunt
But He Wants Fox That VIII
Come Home Nights
Boston Globe.
SLIPPERY ELMHURST,
HUDSON, WIS, July 18, 1886. !

SLIPPERY ELMHURsT,
HUDSON, WIS, July 18, 1886. !
To he Editor Of The GLOBE:
DEAR SIR:-Oould you inform a con
slant reader of your valuable paper where
he would be most likely to obtain a good
durable, wild fox which could be used fol
hunting purposes on my premises? de
sire fox that is good roadster and YET
not too bloodthirsty. III could secure one
that would not bite it would tickle me tC
death.
You know, perhaps, that am of Eng,
lish origin. Some of the best and bluest
blood of the oldest and most decrepit fami.
lies in England flows in my veins. There
is no better blood extant We love the
exhilarting sports of our ancestors, and
nothing thrills us through and through
like the free chase across country behind
the fleeing fox. JoyOusly we gallop over
the sward behind the yelplng pack, as We
clearly scent high, low, jack and the
game.
My ancestors are naughty English peo-
pie from Piscataquis county, Maine. For
centuries our rich, warm, red blood has been
swallowed by the elderberry wine and
huckleberry juice of MOoSehead lake; but
now and then it will assert itself and man.
tie in the broad and indestructible cheek
of our race. Ever and anon in. our family
YOU will notice the slender, triangular
chest, the broad and naughty sweep of alb
dOmen, and the high, intellectual expanse
of pelvic bone, which denotes the true
Englishman; proud, high spirited, soaked
full of calm disdain, wearing checked pam
falcons, and a soft, fhbby tourists hat that
has bow at both ends, so that man can
not get too drunk to put it on his head
straight
/ know that here in Democratic Ameri-
ca, where every man has to earn his living
or marry rich, people will scorn my high
born love of the fox chase, and speak i'll a
sighting manner of my wild, wild Yearn
for the rush and scamper of the hunt By
Jove, but it is joy indeed to gallop over
the sward and the cover, and the open
land, the meet and the cucumber
VINES OF THE PLEBEIAN FARMER
to run over the wife of the peasant and
tramp her low, coarse children into the rich
mould, to sick the hounds upon the rude
rustic rs he paris green's his potatoes, to pry
open the jaws of the pack and return to
the opcn-eyed peasant the quivering seat of
his pantalOOns, returning it to him not be-
cause it is lacking in merit, but because it
is not available.
All, how the pulses thrill as we bound
over the lea, out across the void, anon
Of, tel trtl IF
going home with stellated tractue of the
dura mater through which the gas is gently
escaping.
Let Others rave over the dreamy waltz
and the false joys of the skating rink, but
give me the maddening yelp of the pack in
full cry rs it chases the sparkled twO-year-
old of the low born rustic across the open
field and into the pound.
Let Others sing of the zephyrs that fan
the white sails of their swift flying yacht,
but give me wild gallop at the tail of
every high priced hounds and six weeks at
the hospital with q fractured rib | am
proud and happy. All our family are
that way. We do not care for industry
for itself alone. We are too proud ever to
become slaves to habits of industry. We
can labor or we can let it alone.
This sl bows our superiority rs race.
We havebeen that way for hundreds Of
years. We could work in order to he So
ciablc, but we would not allow it to sap
the foundation of our whole being.
/ write, therefore, to learn if possible
where can get good red or gray fox that
will come home nights. had y fox last
season for hunting purposes, hut he did not
give satisfaction. lie was
CONSTANTLY GETTING INTO THE POND.
| do not want an animal of that kind.
want one that shall always know where
can put my hand upon him when want
to hunt.
Nothing can be more annoying than to
be compelled to 90 to the pound and re-
deem fox, when y party is mounted and
waiting to hunt him.
do not care to yOuch for the gait of a
fox, whether he iOpes, trots or PAGES so
that his feet are sound and his wind good.
bought a Iight-red fox two years ago that
had given perfect satisfaction the previous
year, but when we got ready to hunt him
he went lame in the off hind foot and
crawled under a hen house back of my
estate, where he remained till the hunt
was over.
What l want is young, flealess fox or
the dark-red or iron gray variety, that
can depend upon as a good roadster; one
that will come and eat out of my hand and
yearn to be loved.
| would like also, q tall red horse with q
sawed-Off tail; one that can jump barbed-
wire fence without mussing it up with
fragments of his rider. Any one who may
have such horse or pipless fox will do
well to communicate with me in person or
by letter, enclosing references. | may be
found during the summer months on my
eState.spread ont under tree, engaged in
thought.
f. FITZwILLIAM NYR.
Slipperyelmhurst, Hudson, Wis.
The Preachers Mistake.