The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-01-24
WINTER DIVERSIONS.
LIVELY HUNTING FOR FOXES
GOOD Sport for Men aud Hoys In tn.
Suburbs of Norwich.

GooA Sport for Men aud Hoys In ,ss
SuSurbs of Norwich.
NORWICH Jan. 23.-Foxes are 40 numerous
in cnstern Connecticut that any ono may hunt
them successfully in tho back yards and hons
lots Of this town aud within sight OF tho HOUSE
roofs OF this city. 1t Is easy to start fox an,
day within q mile OF tho city streets. and peo.
plo who dwell in the suburbs hear the layins
OF hounds ringing In the frosty air almost
ovcry night. There has boon little good track.
ing weather until the late snow came, and IN.
game was not hunted much: therefore owner,
of fox dogs lot them out ut night for exercise
The hounds ran all night, OF course: then.
either having driven the game into lodges or
become weary OF the chase. tagged each
other homeward. The snow fall made good
tracking. and for two days recently all the IA.
nous fox hunters OF the town went on the fox
pnth. Grent sport was had. aud ut the end OF
each day the sportsmen came home with A
brush. On the first days hunt these well.
known and veteran fox hunters took tho field,
Joe Ashwell. Glib Pierce Oscar Palmer Al
Iillibridge. son of First Selectman Liibrllsei
John NJ. johnson. and Gurdon l.. Bdwell.
The sportsmen had Oscar Palmers I'm,
brace OF hounds. Zokc and Sport and they
quilted Selectmnn Thurston u, Itllibridgc's
h s. and Of the t"ws at @
break. A fox wus started at once, and tic
hounds run him I'll ting forenoon in lower
1Sss hsSx %s54$ sxHss 1sS1 nt5s
R as r sn ssos Ts IN @
ness to 60 to tho front no plunged urt his
waist into dunTmire;; There ne stuck fora
It With great eiYoit and Started over Till liza and
dale. shedding chunks OF half-frozen mud and
pltable abode of Mr.. Lilibrid9e Thurston
took the mud man in promptly. and he and
c. pn o w es-n ss ns s s,
chopped most Of tho ice Off them and stood
beeTs th sto h to "M and
that were three sizes too t'' JIG
them and set out after the, dogs. the tro"serss
tripping him at every thirty rods Of his course.
nn n na bs 10 hG III, an H bSS r.
and across the house lots Of most Of the farm;
Just about the time the dogs had sent the fox
Into cover IL an almost inaccessible and lofty
left the hounds in the woods. near Mr.. Lii
bridge s house. and went home. satisfied with
day oscar Fsa fser started
from ny Mr. II fil!iSsideos House yhers they LAD
truckman OF this city. went with him. Foxes
appeared to be even more NUMEROUS than on
ds
Plain Hill and not three miles from the centre
o. tins y IN o; ,5s than half On hour aT tho
meadows. boys. upland fields, pastures. and
IN th G IN Norhern Nowh
got glimp.o from time to time OF the
fu nsps w ao had s aesn A. ssnd
underSrus h noted that the sounds Of the chase
Hesns hs
trdses e n psSa tssn
yet when tip animal did como. with almost
n9istess and rara tread lsap1g out Of cover
prise: but keynard had barely leaped ten feot
along the glade when Marshall's gun lew.to
q sudden look Of surprise lcnped into the
H H vert nt, over yer , b;nckwatt and in minute
Mr., Marshall, as happy and exuitant, as child
With its ,'rst doll sprang out Of his ambush
taller as he pieke ap the dead iox and dung
Hitsr Wni:in$ s. for rest and "hottins ting
beast for tI the hunters started
half an hour later the hounds were gallopins
on the track OF another mele, fox. Evidently
The the Tss old sna na p s
was not once With n range Of THO sportsmen
Finally; however he made for sawln.s ledge
Mr. MnrshnI,. WHO was hidHsn thnro
whose luck seemed TO abide with him. until heI
was. wit hin twenty rods Of tho hunter; then he
Wheeled in his truck ami was making or whenl
Marshnil rose out os cover and EunSed shot
doubtless struck the FOX. for he srranS four
foot straight upward: but tho shot was tool
small at the distance. and the game bounded
gun had been loaded with 3 b pellets Mr..
Marshall is certain he would have baSgcd tho
animal. Alter hunting Until after sunset than
sportsmen set out Tor home. having drivcn1
their tenr. second . fox into ledge. Two OF thai
IDENTIFY were out for a lark only. for the houndsi
were not on their trail. 1t is plain. therofose,l
that there ts no end OF foxes in this town. and