Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-01
CUNNING REYNARD.
Three Queer Stories from the Hills OF
Lancaster County, Pa.

Three Queer Stories from the Hills OF
Lancaster County, Pa.
Three funny fox-chases are reported from
different localities in this county, writes q
New York Sun correspondent from Lam
caster, Pa. At lands Valley q fox had
been started and thirty-fve hounds and
half dozen cross-county riders were in live
ly pursuit. The trail led 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 goa" shouted one of
the hunters.
'Dunnop 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 that
there had never before 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, fox jumped out of the hay at
the rear end, landed in the road and trotted
leisurely away to cover.
"Well, I'll be jiggered!" said the team
ster, and told his friend about the way
the hunters had lost the trail mile
back. They both concluded that the only
explanation of it was that the fox had
jumped into the road just behind the load of
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 discontinue of both hounds
and hunters, as it was revealed to him by
the short parley with the teamster, and
when the wagon stopped mile away from
the last trail he had thought that good op-
portunity to leave his hiding place and had
done so.
At Fairvillc party Of hunters, with q
large pack Of hounds, were led a long and
circuitous chase by a 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 Mr.. Haller was
looking out of back window and was sur
prised to see the fox jump out of big
Dutch oven in the garden, the door of which
Is four feet from the ground, and hurry
away to his native hills.
During another chase in Landis Valley the
COX led the hunters and dogs long chase
over hard country and then struck for the
Litilz pike, above Neffsville. The trail fol-
lowed the pike a long distance and then took
to the fields again. The chase lasted until
late in the afternoon, when the fox threw
the hunters off the scent. Toward night the
fox's hiding place was discovered by acci-
dent. 1t had entered farm-yard near Kis-
sci Hill, and taken refuge IN the kennel of
one Of the very hounds that were in the
chase.