The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-30

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fore,--Tom McDermottand the jolly hunters
q this vicinity decided to give Chicago a
tste of a real hunt-a hunt upon which there
wss to be no fungus growth; a PUNT upon
which the sunbeams might cast their iitful
rsys and penetrate it not. The Chicago Hunt
Club was, therefore, invited to hunt, and
the Chicago Hunt Club decided to attend In
body. More than this, 1t would atterd in
style. 1t would charter special trainiand
bring horses. THIS boosted Tom McDermott,
jim McQuade, Sam Parr, Pat Carey and the
hunting host into the sixteenth heaven OF
areamland and an ordina y mortal was us the
dust of the street beside them.
Preparations for the hunt were soon under
I way. Judge Cation donated fine buck and
Tom McDermott bagged two foxes. AT the
ether end of the line, the hunt was formed to
The undyng ether. The Chicago Herald, the
Tribune, the Times, the Inter Ocedn-all fairly
fondled the hunt.
On Wednt sday, Tom McDermott, Pat Carey,
and about dozen Others started out in quest
Of another fox. They found whet McDermott
declared to be a fox hole, for the dogs whined
about it and made rather demonstrative APP
peal The boys opened up on the hole with
shovels and spades, and after digging about
sixteen feet of trench, came to the nest. A
bag was quickly thrust over the hole and a
i've animal entered il, He was trundled off
10 town, and the dauntless McDermott, calling
10 those about his fox cage to get out OF the
way, showed the mouth Of the bag into the
cage and dumped the animal into it, Then
Mac fell into a swoon and was cheerfully car
RED away by Alderman Colley, of streator.
The animal was plain, ugly, belated ground
hsg!
Although Judge Cation had donated deer,
must needs be caught. So McDermott and
the others, who had captured the ground hog,
proceeded to ensnare the festive buck. The
deer was carefully driven into the feeding pen,
an enclosure about thirty feet square, and the
crate in which the buck was to be placed was
ready for his reception, when the messenger
handed McDermott telegram. McDegmott
smiled. His smile would have shamed Bill
Eye in his best moments. He pictured in his
delight second delegation of Chicago hunt.
ers. Perhaps thousand Chicago fox chasers
we're coming in four special trains. He
opened the telegram. The smile faded as he
read. The paper dropped from his fingers and
large briny tear rolled down his face and
fertilized the soil. Judge Cation had tele-
graphed that the Humane Society had de
elared that the fox and deer hunt could not
70 on, and that he, seeing that he would he
implicated in the matter, as far as the deer
was concerned, at least asked McDermott to
stop. There was a weeping and wailng aud
crashing of teeth. McDermott and Colley
swore. No one who has not heard Mr.. Nc
Dermott, can conceive Of the magnitude of
his vocabulary. What would he say to the
Chicago Hunt Club?
About twenty members Of the Chicago
Hunt Club, including two ladies, with four
horses, arrived on q special train at seven
o'clock on Wednesday evening, and were
housed at the Clifton. The boys did not have
the courage to impart the heart breaking
news to them until after supper. They heard
1t and were filled to the toes of their patent
leather boots with disgust. Disgust crept out
of the front entrance of the Clifton and sadly
snshrouded itself in the ripping Fox. A
more angry and more deeply affected crowd
would be a curiosity. Tom was the only man
who had the nerve to face the music, and he
did nobly considering there was no music, nor
did any one favor the Ottawa ear with
speech. There was too much sadness abroad
But the hunters of the vicinity still had two
foxes left, and McDermott assured the hunters
that the foxes would be released if the COM
bined humane societies of the universe for
babe it. At this the Chicago men were
psclted and ceased to lament.
THE CHASE
After a night of fretful anticipations, the
Chicago Hunt Club arose and prepared to
chase the mighty fox from his lair, or away
from the lair Mr.. Shortall or " Short tail as
they facetiously called the president of the
Humane Society. Although his Dolly Warden
pants were in wrinkles and his lovely new
horn was out of tune, McDermott stified his
deep emotion and with the Rutland delegation
at his back invited the Chicago men to the
fray Mr.. Shortall's men had effectually
blocked the project of starting the fox in the
city, by notifying the Mayor and the assem-
bled host directed its course towards the north,
out of the city limits. Only four of the Chi
sago men had mounts, the remainder, with
the ladies, proceeding in carriages. A fox
was loesed near the Carey park, but it refused
TO run, and the crowd came back to town.
This was when McDermott swore. He did
not know the difference between the cast iron
hitching post and porterhouse steak Some
thing had razzle-dazzled him. At length
fox was killed and drag chase took place.
The course led up through the bottoms to
harseilles, through Marselles and turning,
stopped at the Parr place. Returning, the
hunters ran across the first fox at the Carey
pasture, and splendid chase ensued, the fox
at length running into the canal from which
1t was rescued by Pat Carey. The hunters
were well satisfied with the chase, but the
joys of deer chase were not--they had not
been.
grand lunch was given in honor of the
Chicago Hunt Club at nine O'Clock in the
evening Judge Evans acted as toast master,
and in lieu of program called upon several