The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-06-10
A Sketch Of Before
And After the War.
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lionunuSd from lEt page.
turn in. Csl,b, tines" genlI.m.n
want 20 hear about Jocle J4k-'s
grr~t Chriimis fox chase
"Lpr me, VI ,r's. George, TIA M ar
tim,s Il me g"D" so long now, ! most
dlsrem pm her all 'bont EN-
why. ii's not six weeks since !
caught you telling il 10 those New
York gentlemen in the stable; let's
have it now without any variations"
"Well. gent it wur some IF
teen or twenty years befo' s'render,
when ! wur Just y chap sorter help
in 'rouu' ncle Jake. Now the old
ledge, that is Mar'se u sorge's pa,
had been fooled ever 80 many times
by an ole red fox in Carter's Noun.
tain, not n great ways from yer, and
got sorter mad with the dogs; an
ole Jake who loved dem ar hounds
jos ~ il they'd bin folks, swore he'd
cotch that fox If IT took him the
whole of CNi 1tmas week To do it in.
The ledge had n bug 'dnin' of the
quality on Christmas day, an ole
Jake he jest slipped of with the
hounds bout day in the mornin' and
struck that fox's trail right to onst.
He'd got sorter used 70 do ole red.
and knowed what line he'd take. TO
sho'. He never went far from home,
bnt jas' kept gwine on roun' and
roun', more like grey fox. Bout
dinner time ! guv' over, as the
plough mule on which rode began
TO get kinder played out. but ole
Uncle Jake had taken the best horse
In the stable, and ias' pitched right
on near the hounds, who were all
the time on the trail aud maxim a
heap % fuss. After dinner / took
another horse and slIpped out to see
IT l could hear anything o. the ole
man, an there sho' nnff the hounds
were travelin' rom the mountain
where they'd first found the fox.
soon cotched 'em, and keep along
with Uncle Jake till sundown, and
when began to talk bout gwine
home TO dark the old man jes ripped
and cussed, and said he'd stay wild
dat ar fox till the new year, fo' he'd
let him go. Well, gen'l'mens, | les
thote he'd got maybe ticker D
whiskey in his pocket, and was
sorter uppish on that account, so
left him my fresh horse an rode, or
rather led, his'n home. In the
morning when | went round to the
stables and quarters, | didn't see no
hounds, nor horse, nor yet no Uncle
Jake. So, says /, I'll jas' put the
saddle on tho grey colt, and a pone
o. corn bread and some meat in nv
pocket, and slip out and see if the
ole mans still at it. Well, sab, |
rode roun' till near midday when
suddenly | sees dog cross the road
befo' me, then a whole string comes
along, and | sees Jumper Frolic-
Beauty, and the rest of them:
you could most see through 'em
they were so thin, and though thew
had their mouths open, and was try
IN to raise bit of a fuss it warnt
no manner ~ use.
IL knew Uncle Jake warnt far be-
hind and presently sho' huff there
was a rustin' in the wood, aud he
cum out right agin me, the miser-
ablest sight you ever seed. He
didn't pear to notice nue. much cent
just to slip off his horse and to get
ON mine. put the pone o. bread
an the meat in his pocket, an he
went lopin' off after the dogs on the
colt,
There wur no show fur me but TO
git home with the mar who looked
rs tho she'd drop dead in her tracks.
l dursnt fool with no mo- horses, an
jos quietly sot up for Uucle Jake
that night, but durn me If it warnt
for nothin'. Two o. the hounds cum
sneakin' in bout shutdown, but that
wur all. Next mornin' | went to ole
mar'se, the ledge, and he an the
company with him thote it a mighty
good joke. and the biggest kind of a
crowd started out to look for the
chase. There wur nuthin' left to
hear, an it wur about eleven o'clock
he struck right in agin the whole
gang, and l wur with him, or no one
would believe, gen'l'mens, what |
tell you now, for fo' God sab, THE
FoN wUR wALKIN', THE HOUNDS
WERE wAhKIN', en- OLD JAKE ON THE
COLT WERE wALKIV' all within TWEEN
ty steps OF oae another. Lord YOU
should ha seen the ole jedge; thote
he'd bust hisself with lauphin'.
lie sent for q wagon an put the fox
the hounds, and old Jake inter it.
and had 'em druv home. That's ies'
as true, gen'Pmens. as I'm a Twin
man,