Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-05-09

ears and away stole an old jackal, gray
with age and the proud possessOr of g
noble brush.
At first the Jack" ran as straight
as the crow flies, making for a null
lah," a huge ditch with precipitous
sides, which, thanks to its convenient
hiding places, would enable him tc
defy detection. Fortunately for ouI
sport, the willy beasts ends were de-
feated. Two hundred yards from the
goal the leading hound, closely follow
ed by a bull terrier with an eXcep-
tional turn of speed, almost got on
terms with the quarry; and a few Sec
onds later the rest of the pack. in
Guiding the stragglers. were yelping
at his pads. BY taking a turn to the
left he gained a slight advantage, and
when they again came up with him be
when they again came up with him he
headed back in the direction from
which he had come. So successful
was this unexpected manoeuvre that
by the time we had pulled in our
horses and got the pack together the
astute "gidr" was a good half mile
away, and going as strong as ever.
Spread yourself!" shouted the mas
ter We duly spread, riding about five
horse-le lengths apart In order that the
crafty animal might have little op-
portunity to double a second time.
For ten minutes all went we'll. We
had a glorious spin over the most per-
feet country imaginable-light grass,
almost fiat; a faint wintry breeze in
our faces and a brilliant, cloudless
blue sky above us. Popping over a
couple of four-foot mud malls, splash
ing through a dip where the rain had
collected and charging, in an almost
unbroken line, a thick cactus hedge, we
kept our quarry to his course. But,
alack! so good a thing could not be
expected to last. A nullah of formida-
BILE dimensions proved god-send to
the quarry, for this proving too steep
to negotiate, hounds and horsemen
were left on the wrong side, while the
jackal, triumphantly clamberlng up the
opposite bank, with an impudent
whisk Of his ite-tipped brush, sailed
away. But his triumph was short
lived. The master, with hawk-likc
eye, had spotted a negotiable passage
a couple of hundred yards along the
nullah. We did not rejoice
long, however, in our fortune. A gi-
gantic obstacle, consisting of prickly
cactus and bamboos, obscured the
view, and when we had scrambled
through the breach made by the
hounds absolutely lost all trace of the
jackal, while the pack looked inquir-
ingly at the black whip.
To lose the beast after so good a run
was maddening, particularly as the
rapidly increasing heat would soon
make it necessary for us to wend our
way homeward. Luck, however, had
not forsaken us. A yapping from one
Of the fox terriers which had re-
crossed the gap, followed by a deep
bay from the most sagacious of the
hounds, told us that the unexpected
had happened: and almost before we
had time to think the observant Irish
mani viewed the jackal making for
distant grove of sugar cane-with the
gallant fox terrier hotly pressing him.
Hounds were laid on in a jiffy, and by
the time the varmint had gone anoth-
er quarter of mile the pack was In
full cry. Successfully headed by a
vast herd of dun-colored buffaloes, he
was prevented from taking again to
the nullah. He thereupon changed his
tactics. and headed for a cluster or
mango trees, a couple of miles distant,
to reach which he would have to swim
a broad river or perish. Away we
went, riding in open order as before,
with hounds fifty yards ahead of us,
each animal in the pack, down to the
obese spaniels, thirsting for the blood
of the 'gidr."
But a jackal has extraordinary
powers Ol tlluul dliSS anu iSSNpSi0
ton, and as one of the hounds and the
Irish terriers got within three feet of
his brush the animal linked" so sue
cessfully that he was a quarter of a
mile in another direction, where the
river took a favorable curve, before
the pack could be laid on. His last
manoeuvre, however proved to be his
undoing, for he had overlooked the
fact that the two game bull terriers,
having been thrown out, were waiting
for him. Finally, just as he had got
his fOrefeet into the water, they pull
ed him down, holding their quarry till
the arrival of the pack, when he
speedily met his end.-Scottish Field.
KING GEORGE OF GREECE.