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SCRANTON. Sept. 2e-Farmer AFRO A. VIII
| mont's greyhound Racer IL the champion wood
chuck killer Of Shrewsbury township, Sullivan
| county. Racer understands the surface move
ments and tricks Of the woodchuoks 70 perfec-
tion He knows the hours when the little bur
rowers are wont to crawl out OF their under
ground abodes To nibble clover, and at such
| times he lies on the farmhouse porch and In
tenty scans the hillside meadows and pastures.
Racers sight is fine, and whenever he spies a
woodchuck feeding in the field he steals along
the fences until he reaches point where the
woodchuck, its burrow. and himself are on n
straight line. the burrow being between him
and the woodchuck. and five or six times nearer
10 the latter The cunning greyhound APP
proaches tho spot In such roundabout way
that the woodchuck doesn't discover him, and
II keeps on nibbling. working away from It's hole.
Racer then creeps through the fence and runs
straight toward the woodchucks burrow with
the 1eetncss of a thoroughbred. His sleek hide
glistens in the sunlight, as his long body fairly
flies over the grassy field, and nineteen times out
OF twenty he deshes past the hole while the
woodchuok. which has been startled by his rapid
strides In hopping toward It In great alarm. The
animals meet face To face. and the greyhound II
going at such high speed that the woodchuck
attempt to set his teeth in the woodchuck then.
Instead Of doing 60 he drives his pointed nose
little animal spinning in the air. The wood
chuck is hurled away from It's burrow. and Il
areySounds gre speed " Hnd ft that Il % Secomes sso 40
dizzy II doesn't know which way TO scamper to
its hole whom It comes down. II Il did know. Il
for no sooner hns II struck the ground than the
greyhound selzes It BY the back and fractures
For several weeks this summer long headed
old buck woodchuck was too wary for Razor.
thirty rods from fence. and he tha
hound good deal Of trouble: Early In the sum
me er oS bfSe1 Ss od5 oaf whin few fset Of nsSSp
TO capture him, but no had 90 far TO run from
the nearest fence that the woodchuck which
his, hurrow Just in the, nick Of time. Racer
hadn't missed n woodchuok before. and his
ricd him. IL was such close call for the old
buck woodchuck that II made him cautious He |
fed near to his hole afteryard, and Mr. Wilmont
in vain The greyhound had killed all the other |
woodchucks in tho pasture, and his mind |
had too far TO run. however, and the willy old |
woodchuck continued to be on the alert for him. |
had ceased to lie in wait for the cautious wood |
chnek. and that he went hunting in ether fields.
his men pried an eisht.ton boulder out OF the
ground q few rods TO the west of the willy wood
chHek's hole and rolled It down to tho creek.
boulder was three feet deep and Mr.. wilpnont
was Intending TO fill it with surface stones. The
WIN tuo iheu "hie tho
The next morning Mr.. wilmont missed Racer
when he got mp. II was unusual for the grey
hound 70 be absent from the house at that hour |
30 Mr.. Wilmont called To him for several min
utes without getting any response. Racer
hadn't appeared when break asst was over and
Mr. Wimont took his field glass and looked
along the fences to see II the eyhound was
there. He didn't get glimpse of Racer until he
turned the glass toward the hole made by the
boulder, when he saw the greyhound standing
In L. His paws were on the ground. and his nose
was pointed toward the burrow OF the wood
chuck that he had been trying To catch so long. |
Imagining that Rncer was lying In wait for
he boulders hole was twice as near to the AMI
ma burrow M the nearest fence. Mr. Wilmont
trained his glass on the woodchucks hole. In
about forty minutes the wocdchuck popped out
Ind began TO nibhle grass. Racer was watching |
him, but he didn't stir until the woodChuck had
worked twenty-five or thirty feet from the hole
iown tho hill when he sprang out ard ran like
vildfirc for the hurrnw. Tho woodchuck heard
lim. gave n whistle OF alarm. and cantcred
nwnrd the hole. This time he was too late. for
tacer had already Rnt past the hole. and he met
he foxy old fellow that had given him so much
rouhle. ran his nose under his brisket, and
hrew him skyward. The persistent greyhound
,iiled the wOodchuck luggcd IL to the house.
md then got his break fast.
While Mr.. Wilmont was showing n visitor
ver his farm the other dav. tire grcS hound APP
'ehrod to them with two hall grown woodchucks
" the neck. which he had caught on an ad Join
ng farm. Racer has killed forty-two wood
hucks this year. lie always hunts on his own
look. and last winter he caught five hares and
rought them TO the house.