The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

black fox. It would have been a thou. sand pities to damage the wonderful pelt with a bullet. The beast was standing quite still beside a great oak Again I had a happy thought, l re- membered that I had put big nall into my pocket to repair shelter hut in the forest rammed 1t into my gun instead of a bullet. aimed very carefully and succeeded in accomplish ing my design The fox was neatly nailed to the oak by his tail Then took my dog whip and lathered him till he could bear 1t no longer and finally slipped out of his skin and ran for his life.
 You laugh! Yet consider that, af- ter all, 1t was due to the lucky cir | cumstance of my having nail in my pocket. I was less lucky a few years ago when stumbled across a fine stag when I had neither shot nor nall All had in my hand was fistful of cher | ry pits. for I had just been eating that fruit. We'll. couldn't let that noble stag go without an attempt. so I loaded the stones into the gun, fired straight at his forehead and-the stag looked at me ironically and walked | quietly away.
 "It was quite a joke on me, for Of course, people got wind of it. In fact, after a couple of years I was so tired of having some fellow hunter offer me handful of cherry pits that I hated | the very name of cherries. Then 1t happened that the same party Of us l hunted in the same district. Suddenly mighty stag broke cover and came straight at us. What was the sur | prise of my companions to see that ne had a cherry tree ten feet high be- l tweon his antlers! laid him low and thus had my roast and my dessert se- | cured by one shot.
 eel 1 few days later when I met a maddened old boar which charged me at once. l l sprang for a young birch and had l just managed to pull my legs out of harn's way when the furious brute struck the tree, and with such force that his tushes went into the trunk | at one side and protruded from the other.
 'I saw my opportunity I slid down, picked up a heavy stone and clinched | the point of the tushes. Then walked home at my ease. went to bed and re- 1 turned with rife and cart next morn ing after breakfast. The boar weigh l cd 500 pounds
 By the way. you will have wonder. cd that succeeded in bending a boar's tushes as if they were iron nails. This was not possible until after I had bat | tered them with the stones till they were thoroughly heated and thus be- l come Soft enough to bend
 T had another somewhat interesting | experience with a boar few years ago. l was watching for game when a young boar and an old one came trotting exactly in line the old one behind. I aimed and fired. The young boar seampered away The old fellow remained standing as if rooted to the spot walked cautiously up to. him and found that he was stone blind haf ba1 the young boar in his mouth. My bull let had cut the tail of. took hold of the fragment and started for home. the blind boar following me trustfuI- ly. I shall never forget my wife S laughter when I thus delivered the game right at the kitchen door
 Such a trick could not have been played with a fox. I remember once when a lot of game was laid out on the lower part of my castle. saw a fine fox. and ordered my huntsman to skin him at once. Accidentally I en- tered the room half an hour after ward. and what did see? That ras- cally fox had only been doing what foxes do so often-shamming death and just as I entered he was in Inc act of putting his pelt on again. as If he were slipping into an overcoa Well, a bullet settled him.
 Foxes remind me Of wolves. T, Russia one winter l was driving n single horse to a sleigh just outsida of St. Petersburg. Suddenly 6 gigan. tic wolf came up behind us and leapsd at me. I threw myself flat. and ths wolf. missing me. fell on the poor horse. Immediately he began to eat it ravenouEIy He gorged It's hind quarters whole fact which only re- doubled the speed of the wretched ani- nal. ventured to raise my head, and saw that he was swallowing the rest of the horse.
 "r seized the whip and began 10 lash him with all my might He