Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1894-12-07
A SUNDAY FOX HUNT.
How the Hunters Were slammed by Per
verse Rcynard.

HOW tne hunters were Shamed ny FER
verse Rcynard.
Benjamin s. Rupp, of Talmage, Wis,
tells this story OF his personal expert
ences:
zone Sunday about year ago
mounted horse often used for fox
hunting to ride down to the back pas.
ture lot to give the calves bit of salt,
and, as usual, my four hounds fol-
lowed. twas beautiful, clear morn
ing, just after rain, with the roads
decidedly muddy Suddenly over to-
ward Earlville heard pack of hounds
on hot trail. So did my horse and
dogs. My horse was bound to go, and
! could not keep the dogs back, and
fearing they would be lost thought
would go little way up the hill and
see what the racket was about. My
horse was SO excited that could not
hold him. passed several old staid
Mernonites going to church and
splattered them full of mud
but ! pulled my hat down,
looked solemn and as If crying, and
they thought was going for doctor.
had not run mile till had met Sam
Carpenter, who has twenty-five dogs;
Sylvester Miller, who has ten dogs, and
who were out sailing their calves and
could not hold their horses any better
than could. AS we went on, at some
crossroads or forks we met Rudy
Frankhouser, Jacob Sewers, ROLAND
Roger, John Sewers, Martin Balmer,
Mart Knppenhafer, Adam Hoover and
about twenty more who had gone out
that morning also to salt calves. II
was regular sailing day, and | never
knew that there were SO many calves
in West Earl township, and that they
were all given lick of sailed bran on
the same day. 1t was really singular
co-incideI.cs, Now, some OF the lner
were riding bareback, soma were or
mules, some only with blind brides or
their steeds, none were DIRE ssed fol-
either church meeting or fox hunting
1t was the most innocent party evel
saw, and they did all they could t.
curb mules and horses and call off tn,
hounds. But the trail was hot and tn,
dogs eager. We might just rs wei
have whistled jigs to milestonea ant
expect them to dance, so the hun
went on and we could not stop it. w,
ran to Farmerville, then to Hinkletown
next to Vogansville and wound up a
Groffdale-about fifty riders who hat
, all gone out in the most pious wa,
on Sunday morning to salt calves il
the back lots, and were led astray b,
| circumstances over which they had nj
control. The worst of the whole mat
, ter was that that internal fox, pos
sessed by the devil took us b,
every church in the neighborhood
= He almost ran into one church
and we were forced to ride by
) splattering mud in all directions
soaring the old people and taking tn
: thoughts of the young folks off sacre
things. When we first started we trie
to make the people believe we wer
after thief, the doctor, priest or tina
we thought we were late for churc
service, and SO were riding fast an
1 furious. But this racket would not dc
| There were too many of us and hur
. dred dogs on hot trail. We pulle
: our horses and mules and shouted a
/ the wicked, ungodly dogs, but n
: good. We had a through ticket q
, special rates and could not stop of
: There were all kinds of creeds anon
a us riders, and that fox took us by on
f respective churches. The preachers sa'
e us, our elders, deacons, our wives
daughters and sweethearts beheld u
v and every one wept great weeps.-N
t Y. Advertiser.