Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-11-18
another MUD BATH TAKEN
LIEUTENANT JENSENS Ex-
PERIENCE.
Exciting End of Ennervating Fox
Hunt AT Camp Parole
Yesterday.

Yesterday.
In an exciting. cross country, fox
hunt yesterday a number of persons
narrowly escaped coming to grief. No
/ one was injured but for several
| hours the services of half dozen men
were required to extricate q mired
horse Every minute il seemed as
though the animal must be abandoned
TO his fate. but with the aid of rop, 5
| the horse was extricated.
! Early yesterday morning the hunt
| ing party set out. Every day they had
taken q different direction and yester-
| day their course took them out psst
Camp Parole and to Best Gate. In
the party were Lieutenant ]. II. Reid,
Lieutenant ]. r. Brady, Lieutenant
II. N. Jensen. Miss Terry and Mrs.
Larned.~ They were accompanied by
/ a whipper-in on horseback and the
start was made under auspioious con-
| ditions. At Best Gate a fox was
started Across country he few as
though possessed of the speed of
| coyote.
Like the scudding breath of an Oc-
| tober gale he fitted across the ground.
| Long, sinuous and elastic he hugged
| cloS to the earth, his padded fee {
spurning the fOotstool in quick, rapid
| strides. The crisp frosty air was as
balm TO his tortured lungs as they
drank it in in quick, sharp gasps.
| BY the many wiles and wary turns
known to the fox he sought to throw
his pnrsuers II the track. The dogs
were pushing him fast aud he had
taken to the long sweeping turn with
wide detours and crafty sidesteps as
| the best means of escape. The deep
baying of the excited hounds cut like
knife the quiet air. 1t echoed and
re-echoed like the crack of doom and
spurred on his tagging footsteps.
He ran along the tops of. fences,
traversed logs and then jumped far off
into space in an effort to dissipate his
scent. In spite of this they were gain
ing upon him. Back of the hounds,
taking fences. bitches and culvert
crossings with the speed of the deer
thuudered the horses, keen for the race
and pulling hard at the bit. AS each
dangerous leap was encountered and
negotiated the riders laughed at the
one who had made the poorest land.
Across soft, soggy fields that taxed
the energies TO the utmost they dashed
on. Now and then a fence too high
20 negotiate was encountered ana it
vas necessary to change their course
or let down bar. But all the time
they kept the hounds in sight and
never faltered on the trail.
The hounds whimpered and whined
on the trail, they turned and twisted
this way and that and then, long,
lean and gaunt, with lollng tongues
and heaving hanks they swept on the
chase. 1t seemed as though the race
was about won when-it then passed
from the sublime. On the wide stretch
ing farm of Mr.. Lawrence Bailliere
there is meadow, large and sloping.
ALross this lead the chase. Every
one was anxious to be in at the death.
for the fox was but a short distance
ahead. Neck and neck the horses
were running and were striking the
stride that tells in a close finish.
At that moment the horse on which
Mrs. Larned was riding struck spot
of soft mud. He sank Co his fetIocks,
then to his hooks and plunged on. 1t
happened that he was at the very
edge of the morass and easily reached
the bank. He struggled to the firm
land and stood, frightened and tremb-
ling, out of the race and done for the
day. sClose behind Mrs. Larned had
been riding Lieutenant Jensen. Seeing
her horse go down he swerved to the
left. 1t was bad error of Judgment
and the next moment his mount struck
the stagnant pool The lieutenant
was flung over the animals head into
the very midst of the ooze and slime,
where he fioundered about in an effort
to learn his whereabouts. On hands
and knees he managed to crawl to the
side of the soft mess. The horse,
however, was not so lucky. At the
first plunge he went in to his girths.
An instants period Of surprise held
him motionless and then he again be-
gan struggling.
Every movement only served to more
firmly imbed him in the quagmire.
Soon the black mass was closing in on
him. 1t crept higher and higher, till
it reached his flanks Soon it crept
up along his back, to his withers. He
gasped and struggled in an Intellectual
fight with the all-encompassing mass,
but kept gradually sinking deeper.
In the meantime his rider and the
other men present had not been idle.
As well as they could under the cir
cumstances they tried to free the ami
NAL, but with the means at hand the
best they could do was to keep the
horse's head above the mass in order
that it would not be suffocated. The
whipper-in was sent for ropes and
help. He soon returned with the nec-
essary aid.
After several hours work in which
it looked for time as though the
horse would have to be abandoned, he
was freed from his position. He was
quickly rubbed down and hurried to
town. This morning he was none the
worse for his experience. excepting for
severe stiffness in his hind quarters.
Lieutenant Jensen was not injured
physically, but he is expressing great
regret over the loss of the fox, which,
in the melange made his escape.