The age-herald., 1899-06-11

These remarks were all jokes, some of them as old as the men that made them. But Buster John didn't know that
 Why, the other dogs were not in sight when Hodo and the fox came into the held and they didn't come up until the fox was caught and killed,' Buster John asserted.
 This statement seemed to make no im- pression on the others. "Abercrombie, make the boy tell you tonight how much Maxwell gave him to talk that way,' re- marked Mr. Collingsworth.
 Seeing that Buster Johns feelings were hurt, Joe Maxwell turned to him laughing. They're only joking" he exclaimed. '"They know very well their dogs would never have caught this fox"
 Why Hodo was running him all around here like a rabbit before the rest of the dogs were in sight, and before they did get in sight he had killed him." exclaimed Buster John.
 q believe you," cried Mir. Colingsworth. That dog of yours is a freak, Maxwell; theren never be another like him. Of course we'll have dogs that can catch red foxes; this pack here can do it any day in the week, but we'll never see another dog with the go in him that your dogs got. Why, he's venomous. Back wonder he crashed through a briar patch just like he'd been shot out of a cannon, and his nose-well he didn't have to run on the
 
 ground. I never saw anything like 1t in my life. There ain't a fox in the world that can stand up before him 50 minutes. Look at him. The old dogs are tired out and he's walking around as fresh as a daisy. No, sir! we'll never see his like again."
 Whats your opinion, Fountain?" ask ed the tWhite-Haired Master. Fountain shook his head and dismounted from his mule, under pretence of fixing a buckle or strap.
 Well, sah," he said with fevor, q has seed dogs in my time; I has seed dem what dey said could run, an l has seed dem what I b'lieved could run, but not be- fo dis day has deze eyes seed dog what could reely run. Onless, suh, twuz dem ar greyhoun's what b'long ter Marse Billy Ross. Dem dogs has got de body an de legs but dey ain't got de head an de win CT dish yer Hodo. Give um a mile dash in open groun' an maybe dey could git dar 'fo dish yer dog, but when it come ter brush an briar and canebrake dey wouldn't show up nowhar close ter dat dog dar Yes-yes, suhi-ef you'd "a seed what I seed you'd a rubbed yo' eyes like l did"
 What did you see, Fountain?" inquired the White-H Haired Master.
 Well, suh, a breff of win will tell It, but a preacher wouldn't make you b heVe it." Fountain threw his head back and placed the forefinger on his right hand in the palm of his left. "When OPScar-Face made his turn fer ter come back, he made 1t like a mule shoe-a wide sweep at de top but narrer, you may say at de heels De top CT de turn might a been q mile broad-you all may know better bout dat dan me-but at de narrer part man stanin' in de middle could a seed de dogs gwine, an could a seed um comin'. know, bekaze I seed whar dey went down gully, an I wuz settln on dish yer mule in sight CT de gully when hear dat ar dog fetchin' OF Scar-Face back. "De fox, suh, come by me not 20 yards off, an by de time he make his disappear ance I hear dat dog open up not hundred yards behind, an he come by me- suh des like bird a-flyin'. l fetched whoop CT two-you know how I kin holler, suh, an de. dog tuck a seven-rail fence an never etched itr no, suh, never fetched it. You will not blieve it. suh an I don't blame you; but kin show whar de dog riz an