The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-12
FOX HUNT!
II Took Place in BingviIIe Last
Satterday 6 Wassent What You
Might Call Sich a Awful Sue
Cess.--FuII PartickIers Give Be-
low as per FolIerS::

There was big fox hunt in Bing-
vile last Satterday, which begin very
suspicious, but ended up in a good cal
of fizzle, as you might say.
Last week Yves Woodruff, our expert
hunter and trapper, ketched fox in
one of his traps by the foot, and being
as it wasn't hurt very bad Yves man.
aged to get it into a sack after it had
bit him through the thumb, and lugged
it home alive for a fox hunt. Yves an
nounced that the fox would be let loose
last Saturday morning at 9 o'clock
sharp in front of the town hall, and
any person desiring to chase said fox
would bring along their horses and
hounds and come on.
Long before the hour set for the
chase the entire populashion of Bing-
vile had assembled in front of the
town hall to see the fun. About nine
people had horses and the rest was all
on foot. There was also about IS
hounds and dogs of various dcscrip-
shions present, ready to start in on the
chase.
Promptly at 9 o'clock Yves knocked
slat often the box in which the fox
was confined, and it popped out and
started down the street hckerty-split
Deacon Andrews, who was standing off
little ways in front of the box watch
in the proceedings, had the fox to dash
wildly right betwixt his legs, which
made the deacon go into the air with a
yell, and he come down on his back
with such violence that it knocked the
al 30 ,@f
he couldn't even express his indigna-
shion.
The dogs was all held back until the
fox got about half a mile start, then
they was all released and dashed off af-
ter the fox, the folks on horseback and
folks on foot follering them with loud
yells. Before Ranse Smiley could get
started his horse begin to kick up and
bounced Ranse off, who lighted on his
head and shoulders in SIGH a manner
that he scarcely knowed what had hap
pened to him. When Ranse got over
his daze he grabbed his mare by the
bride, kicked her a few times to show
her who was master, then led her into
the stable and said the fox chase could
go to blazes for all of him.
Them as follered on foot was soon
left behind and after they had run
theirselfs outen breath they all walked
back to Bingville and dispersed to their
various homes.
No further word was heard from the
fox hunt until Saturday ev'g about
dark, when them as had follered on
horseback, together with the dogs, snuk
silently into Bingville, so tired and cx-
hausted that they couldn't scarcely sit
in their saddles and Htheir horses all
covered with sweat and the dogs with
their tails betwixt their legs and their
tongues hanging out.
1t seems the fox first run towards
Hardscrabble, then circled around Saw
ridge Mountain, then TUX down Snake
Bend way and then run toward Sor-
row Hollow, with the dogs and the fox
hunters on the horses IN mad pursuit.
LATE Wilkins horse stumbled and
fell with Lafe going down hill, and
Lafe callxilates he was throwed about
Is feet more or less, lighting in a sit
ting posture, and slid on down the hill
some several rods. LATE didn't pursue
the fox no further after this-no, he
come back home and walked all the
way, too, leading his horse, and said
that somehow or other he couldn's
seem to set comfortable in the saddle.
In Jumping his horse over fenc.