Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-11-17
a SUNDAY FOX HUNT.
an Impromptu Chase That Brought no,
tiflcation to the Participants.

tiflcation to the Participants.
Benjamin s. Rupp of Talmage, Wis.
tells this story of his personal expert
ences:
como Sunday about a year ago
mounted horse often used for fox hunt.
ing to ride down to the back pasture
lot to give tho calves bit of salt, and,
as usual, my four hounds followed. 1t
was beautiful, clear morning, just
after O rain, with tho roads decidedly
muddy. Suddenly over toward Earlville
l heard q pack of hounds on hot trail
So did my horse and does My horse
was bound to so, and as 1 could not
keep tho dogs back, and fearing they
would be lost, thought would go o
little way up tho hill and SEQ wh.t tho
racket was about. My horse WAS so ex-
cited that l could not hold him.
'Ipasscd several staid old Mcnnopites
going to church and splattcrod them
full OF mud, but pulled my hat down,
looked solemn and rs if crying, and they
thought 1 was going for doctor. / had
not run mile till l had met Sam Car
penter, who has 25 dogs; Sylvester Mil
Ter, who has ten dogs, and who were
ont sailing their calves and could not
hold their horses any better than l
could. AS we went on, at some cross
roads or forks wo met Rudy Frank
houser, Jacob Sewers ROLAND Roger,
John Sewers, Martin Balmer, Mart
Kuppenhafer, Adam Hoover and about
20 more who had gone out that morn
ing also to salt calves. 1t was regular
sailing day, and l mover knew that there
were omany calves in West Earl town
shin. and that they were all given lick
of salted bran OH the Same day. 1t was
q really singular coincidence. Now,
some of the men We're riding barebacked
some wero on mules, some only With
blind brides on their steeds; mono was
dressed for either church meeting or fox
hunting
1T was the most innocent party I
ever saw, and they did al they could to
curb mules and horses and call off the
hounds. But the trail was hot and the
dogs eager. We might just rs well have
whistled jigs to milestones and expect
them TO dance SO the hunt went on, and
we could not stop it. We ran to Farm
ersville, then to Hinkletown, next to
Vogansville and wound up at Groffdale
about so riders who had all gone out
in the most pious way on Sunday morn
ing to salt calves in the back lots and
were led astray by circumstances over
which they had no control The worst
of the whole matter was that that in
fernal fox, possessed by the devil, took
Us by every church i'll 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 the thoughts of the young
folks off sacred things.
"When we first started, we tried to
make the people believe we were after
thief, the doctor, priest, or that we
thought we were late for church serv-
ice and so We're riding fast and furious.
But this racket would not do. There
were too many of us and 100 dogs on q
hot trail. We pulled our horses and
mules and shouted at the wicked, IN
godly dogs, but no good. He had a
through ticket at special rates and
could not stop off. There were all kinds
of creeds among us riders, and that fox
took US by our respective churches The
preachers saw Us, our elders, deacons,
our wives, daughters and sweethearts
beheld Us, and every one wept great
weeps. New York Advertiser.