Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1899-04-06

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prise. the card of your Hollywood cor.
respondent in reply 10 mine Of recent
date. Amusement a. the seemingly awk-
ward position In which the gentleman.
or gentlemen, as the case may be, has
gotten himself or gotten each other.
Surprise, not At the reply % all. but al
the nature of it. Naturally shrinking he
would (if beth communications were
from the same pen) eDdeavor to subsian-
tate his former statement concerning
Gamers Johnson, his card was of course
in the nature of surprise.
He has evidently given mp that posi-
tion as utterly untenable, and has as
'sumed an entirely different one. Poor
Johnson ! fear the gentleman has in
advertentlY damaged his reputation (if
such thing be possiblcl And the fact
that he was so young makes IL doubly SO.
)n.y II months old and indeed judg-
ing by the manner in which he ran On
nothing in question, had the strongest
impression that he was not more than
three months ola.
Assuming your correspondents to be
one and the same land sincerely hope
they are, otherwise in she Jealous guar
'iianship of their individual interests.
there might be clash, resulting in the
iiresf confusion and embarrasslnent.)
ask him how In the name of conscience
he reconciles the Two statements i.
In his previous card johnson Played
most conspicuous part, and now. on the
contrary, be plays very insignificant
part. He practically agrees with me
and says he (Johnson) after having
sighted the fox actually ran him short
distance. He also goes s., far as to ad
nit when the dogs came back Graves
Black aas running on equal terms with
the leader, namely, Hayden's Buster
To quote from his card, "when the pack
came up. Dir. Hayden's Buster and Mr
Grdres' Black were the first TO show M
md jumped the fence together. with Dir.
Heb5's March about length behind.
Further on he makes another admission
and says Mr.. Graves dog was ore of the
fwo that killed the fox.
He has offered as an excuse that Mr..
Bunday's cur interfered. Now, if Bun
iay's dog is cur, the Hollywood pack
must be a most promiscuous combina-
ton. because Bunday's dog is of the same
stock. He is flesh oi their flesh and blood
Df their blood. If one is a car. the OTHER
IS n cur. have never yet heard Graves
offer such an excuse. because it was new
r. necessary, the brush pluming and wav
ing from his horses bride telling in
language plain the result of the chase.
l would like to state right here. and
ny statement is based on the testimony
sf Mr.. Wilson Graves and several other
sh0 saw them. that when the fox ran
ip through Jones place, the Oakyille
logs leading by half mile, were very
near the fox, aud would have undoubt
sdly caught him had they not been both
sred by Mr.. Graves in his anxiety to be
IN at the death. The confusion that re
suited from his unintentiOnal into rfer
.rce enabled the Hollywood dogs tn
come mp, otherwise the fox would have
leen killed, and they (the Hollywood
Iogs) would have known nothing of il
i comparison of the work done by the
two packs, during the season, will give
fair estimate of their respective values
The Oakville dogs. for the season Just
ended, have killed six or seven foxes.
and dare say the Hollywood dogs have
not done so well. They simply ran
them enough, by day, to give them a
ravenous desire tn rob some neighbour
hen-roost at night, whereas the 0akville
hounds invariably kill them.
IL may quote again, your correspon-
lent says, 1--WE met by agreement. but
were an hour late" II seems to be a
most unfortunate circumstance connect
ID with all their chascs that the Holly.
wood hounds. as well as the hunters, are
always about an hour late.
l trust your correspondent has not se-
riOusly offended Mr.. Graves because,
would like to have him come down next
season and kill fox if only to lend en-
enlargement to the Hollywood hunters
l note with pleasure our friend is slowly
but surely getting on the right track
think his next effort, prompted by a
s'irit Of generosity, will be full and
fair vindicatiOn OF the Oakville pack
hut, If perchance. you have taco cores
n"ndents from Hollywood, the percep.
tible Inconsistency of the two states
nents makes IL imperative that they de-
wise some means of getting together. II
one is right, the other is certainly wrong.
and 1t is my private opinion, publicly
expressed, they are both wrong. say
they are hammering at a false trail.
which, IL adhered to persistently, will
surely bring them tn a most-disastrous
nut. Give up the idea. Follow not
these divergent aud deIusive trails.
Pack together. Catch the right trail,
aud nv word for it. if closely and dill
gently followed, il will lead to the cor
rect and inevitable conclusion that the
oakville dogs are unquestionably the
tOp-nOtchers of the county.