Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-03
CUNNING REWARD.
Three Queer Storias from the Hills of
 Lancaster County, Pa.

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 Lancaster County, Pa.
 Three funny fox-chases are reported from different localities in this county, writes New York Sun correspondent from Lan- caster, Pa. At Landis Valley fox had been started and thirty-fve hounds and a half dozen cross-county riders were in live ly pursuit. The tralfled among the fields and over the hills for several miles, and then took the hounds to the turnpike. There, in the middle of the pike, the scent was lost. The dogs maneuvered and beat about here, there and everywhere, but the trail could not be found. A teamster, on his way to town with load of hay, had passed the spot where the trail was lost in the pike only minute before the hounds burst on the road in full cry. The teamster stopped on seeing the pack and the riders following them to watch the result of the maneuvering.
 (Which way did he gos" shouted one of the hunters.
 "Dunno!'' the teamster shouted back 'Didn't see him."
 After watching the dogs and the hunters for few minutes the teamster went on The hunters unanimously declared tha: there had never be fore been such an mex plicable loss of fox's trail, and had to give up the chase. After going mile or so, as he tells the story, the teamster with the hay stopped his horses to talk with an ac quaintance he met on the road, and, as they were talking, a fox jumped out of the hay at the rear end, landed in the road and trotted leisurely away to cover. "Well, I'll be jggered!" said the team ster, and told his friend about the way the hunters had lost the trail a. mile back. They both concluded that the only explanation of it was that the fox had jumped into the road just behind the load ot hay as it was passing and, being cunning old customer, had jumped on the hay and burrowed into it out of sight before the dogs came up in full cry. He had doubtless enjoyed the discomfiture of both hounds and hunters, as it was revealed to him by the short barley with the teamster, and | when the wagon stopped a mile away from | the last trail he had thought that a good op | portunity to leave his hiding place and had | done so.
 | At Fairvillc party of hunters, with a large pack of hounds, were led a long and I circuitous chase by fox and at last the trail took them to Farmer Edward Haller's | garden. There the scent was lost and could not be recovered. The chase was
 abandoned. An hour later Mir. Haller was looking out of a back window and was sur- I prised to see the fox jump out of a big | Dutch oven in the garden, the door of whict | IS IOuE 1coU lFOu luC STOuuu, tluu hurry | away to his native hills.
 l During another chase in Landis Valley the
 fox led the hunters and dogs long chase l over a hard country and then struck for the
 Litilz pike, above Neffsville. The trail fol
 lowed the pike a long distance and then tool
 to the fields again. The chase lasted unti
 late in the afternoon, when the fox threw
 the hunters off the scent. Toward night tht 1 fox's hiding place was discovered by acci
 dent It had entered a farm-yard near Kis
 sel Hill, and taken refuge In the kennel O
 one of the very hounds that were in tn,
 chase