The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-27
TILE GINNING REWARD.

SoutheyS story is OF tame foX at
Bridgwater, which had been brought
up from cub to run In the wheel as
turnspit One day, however, his vaga-
bond instincts proved too much for
him, and he determined to take holt
day The fieshpots of his Egypt were
as dust and ashes to his palate COM
pared with the chickens of his own Sc
lection Unfortunately he chose the
hunting season for his excursion, and
soon came in contact with his heredita-
ry prosecutors. He evidently deter
mined to give them a good run for he
took them twice through a stream
called the Parrot after a grand cir
cumbendibus, which involved chase
of nearly thirty miles; he made his way
back with hounds in full cry, and re-
entering the kitchen, resumed opera
tions in the wheel with as much uncon-
Germ as though he had never left it.
The fat cook with whom he was a
great favorite, succeeded in beating the
hounds off till the arrival of the hunts
man, who humanely assisted in saving
life which, if sagacity and ingenuity
be virtues, we'll deserved to be spared.
A somewhat risky hiding place, es-
pecially if the stowaway remained in
seclusion for an indefinite period is a
bakers oven, and yet the writer has
two instances before him OF such Sc
lection, one occurring with the Blank
ney pack when Major Tempest was
master and Capell huntsman. A pre-
cious quarter of an hour elapsed before
the fugitive was discovered. The 9th
err in the experience of H. Reginald
Corbett. Esq, seemed to have entirely
disappeared in the neighborhood of
some farm buildings, when a lad ar
rived with the information that the fox
"had got into the bread-oven, and was
there still"
Smart doubling, for which all foxes
are more or less famous, is naturally
one of his most elementary tactics.
this operation, and of the cleverness of
it even when 1t has failed Thus fox
got away by leading hounds to a
clipped hedge, and. hiding on the other
side till they had torn pell-mell over.
gently and leisurely leaped on to the
hedge again, and running along the top
got clean away. He was observed by a
person on foot who, of course, was un-
able to interfere with his well-earned
safety. the fox returning at an easy
jog-trot to his home, totally uncon-
cerned, and oblivious of the adaptation
of an old proverb which would ulti-
mate1y apply to his case, "He who is
hunted and gets away may live to be
hunted another day"
From Scotland comes a tale of failure
attributable purely to accident, and to
no lack of ingenuity. Things were get
ting very desperate for Reynard In
fact. it was close on catching time -
when he led through an open fir-wood
along which ran a five-foot wall. to-
wards which hounds were running at
an angle of about seventy-five degrees.
On reaching the spot where the fox had
scrambled over the wall hounds
checked, when one of the field, looking
ming along the top of the wall in an OPP
posite direction, and when observed he
was practically parallel with hounds
After about six hundred yards of this
mural promenade Reynard jumped
down on the further side; but his enc
my had spotted him, and relentlessly
put hounds on his line, and a kill was
effected in a very few minutes.-Eng-
lish Illustrated Magazine.