The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-09

TITIIG, sumo We WUT0 oT0oU-
lily making to the northeast, toward the
town of Pawtucket, and along toward
sunset an idea suddenly dawned on my
mind-funny | hadn't thought of it be-
fore-that the foxes of Western Rhode
Island, confound EN-. are ALFRED pecu-
har; and then, quicker'n a wing, a sense
OF the gum game one of EN- had played
on me mt fair and square. The fact was
we had been chasing the same old divvii
OF fox all day. He had put up an out
and-out April-fool Joke on us knowinp,
that in fair and square run he could
tail off my dogs as fast and far as he
pleased, and then, when the notion took
MN, could just leave them standing stock
still in the woods
We'll, we bunked in at farmhouse
over night, and We're astir at davbreak
sun on the track of that same old fraud
Tor nad made up my mind either to bag
or mole the cuss, IL / had to drive him
down through the cities of Providence and
New Bedford into Buzzard's Bay. How
ever, dldn get him after all, but some
one else dld, and there's some comfort in
lnat. All that forenoon we kept climbing
d Sdter mat blessed fox, Up one hill and
Gown another, and up and down and down
ana up until 1t got to be a close question.
IN tne rare intervals when we all got
eoSStHSr, Whlcn was more stuck up and
s sS UP with long bull brer prongs,
the dogs or /. ~ y. no afi lil.
Anyhow, we were all pretty thor
oughly done up 1t was getting along To-
s maru noon, l reckon, with that fox still
ABOUT mile ahead and the dogs lust
ABOUT the same distance to the front of
me, tnat clambered over the brow Of
ana O or,t NE latest hills in Rhode Island
me valley of the Pawtucket river / was
sun CHASING that particular fox, mind.
b6Iu, as a matter OF fact, counted on
DOWNING MN over sure in the open coun-
Try TINS side of Providence, which was
lesS IMAM a dozen miles away
soaTo rom n, the top of the last hill l had
sealed the whole valley was spread out
IKE map for more than ten miles TO the
east dotted with solitary farm houses
@airt D99l6GingS and the clustered white
hlght below me, almost at the foot of
me NH, was the town of Arkwright. a.
slile or SO beyond, that of Phoenix, and
SO SO on tllI l distinguished dimly the out
mes OF PaWtucket city, its house roofs
ana steepleS at the edge of the horiZon
M TMaSSy was outspread a wide stretch Of
WOODS, open fields, ana pasture land
with here and there a meadow or swaie:
ana, glancing across the scene what
s Sn6 "a catch sight of but that Internal
i re-; Iox, a mile away red streak skat-
ing across an open swamp at a Ieisurelv
pace, making straight toward Ark risrhf
linen l said to myself, You Internal red
somebody else will have The dogs were
sun hot on the trail, 50, having Climbed
ed suit. - Aoilo"-
Now that fox, with Incredible assur-
ance OF faith in his own sprinting pow
S ers or led on by faith, kept right on his
track to Arkwright and fnaIly exnIode5
IN the main street of the place. Al least
IL seemed to the Arkwright people II was
soTt OF explosion, when he bounded into
ne tTo,, heart Of the town Just about midday.
However, he didn't follow the main ar
terry of Arkwright very far; the men. wo
men, and children were darling ont Of
therei head him orr So Revpsrd swirl
~ and elusively as a swallow, dived down
d d, slae street and SKINNED lightly-2ut
bush-covered hal not far away ~ q
But all Arkwright was now aroused
men, women. and boys, its hunting blood
at FEVER heat. Especially so AZ was with
Albert Miett, the village butcher and his
brother-in-law, Fred Cole, who caught nm
tnelr breech-loaders and carried across
k me nelds in pursuit of the audacious fox
MeanWhlle II appears that a fine large
hunting dog, belonging to one of the first
citizens of the town, had been ranging and
rummaging about the brush pasture to
the north of the hamlet all the forenoon
seeking game, so that when the fugitive
fox shot past him, making into the omen
place, he had no doubt that he was in high
old luck. In that way, however he made
the mistake of his life; he has not been
able to retrieve the unhappy effects of that
error as yet. Neither has his owner been
"All the same, that $50 Arkwright hunt
ing dog was game. Hot on the heels of
Reynard, he had run him right into town
and was about thirteen lengths ahead of
Miett, the butcher and Brother-ir-IaVv
Cole, when the fox leaped out of Ark
wrights side street, and gambolled across
whole nlaRa
was in an uDroar Nett and Cole were
hallootng and Whooping, too, as they iump-
ed out Of the village, bounding over fences
and walls and brandishing their guns. SO
this valuable dog, naturally a swift run
ner thus encouraged, oVerha.uled Reward
in so doing, though. he made mistake No
2.
THE chase. which had been a mighty
rapid one, had taken the party. dog. and
men-ny hounds were stfil half a mile
away, ambling down valley hill slone-
over acres of moving fields pastures and
woodlands. And presently Butcher Mieft
who was well to the front, came 10 the edge
of a dense thicket. There the dogs had
halted irresolutely. The animal. barking
furlously, now and then darted al the
brake, but as often retired discreefIv and
in good order. Inspired by the Dresenee
of the men. however, Cole having now
come on the scene, and melted bv their in
vitation to him to sail in, the dog sudden
ly leaDed into the coDse and tackled fhe
fox. But he didn't stay there long. In from
ten TO twenty seconds he emerged there
from. appearing to have been hoisfed af-
ter the fashion of a hay tedder and he
landed at the feet of Albert Mietf IN
stantly Miett pulled up his piece and let 20
both barrels into the thicket, but with no
other result, apparently, than 10 slice 10
a number Of the hazel stems ringing the
outer rim of the coDDice.
Then Nett angriiy yelled at tie stink
ing dog to 'st-boyI and ii responded nobly
With half de5pairins howl into the hazel
clump it bounded. and for a moment or
two a confused sound of hOwlfYo aud