Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-01-31

| that when you said saddle to them
thought you were talking about
something to eat.
! That crowd, mounted, was Won
derful sight. There was one gentle
man who tips the scales at two hun
bred and fifty pounds, and most be-
comingly dressed in the latest thing
in riding clothes topped off with g
velvet helmet, who went gaily to the
] meet perched upon the back of a lit
| tie mule that weighed almost as much
as the rider There was little fell
low who would call himself fat at a
hundred pounds leaning over the neck
of a sixteen-hand racer that pulled
at the bit and shook his head as if
he were saying, I'll show this buncl
something today"
Fifty dogs sprung away at the WORD
of command and five minutes after
ward they opened up and red fox
sped across the meadows in test Of
speed. A second fox was started and
fox, big fellow with a white tip on
the end of his brush, circled and came
at full speed through the crowd witt
twenty dogs, the lead one not Over
three hundred yards behind him, talk
ing at every. jump and asking that
fox to wait q minute as they wanted
to give him something. Old RedbirG
felt as if he didn't want thing jus;
then except to leave the state of Mis-
sissippi, and he took the shortes,
route he knew for Georgia, with ::
bunch of raving maniacs coming a
fast as they could behind him.
Run Dick, run Devil, up a hill
down bluff, across a pasture with .
big ditch right in the center of it
and right here some OF the crow
stopped to look for safe crossing
place.
Up galloped a large game gentle
man on a little game mule going al
full speed. eff you fellow are not go
ing to Jump give ME room," bawleG
the rider. The crowd parted, and or
they came with a rush, the mules tail
swinging in acircle as hs rider liftet
him along with pair of spurs. When
he got to the ditch instead of jump
ing straight out, he went straight up
and down he came in three inches Of
water and three feet of mud.
Splash! and a nervy young fellow
on bay plug lit alongside and wal |
lowed like water buffalo.
"My Gawd, l wouldn't have missed
this for million dollars" gasped one
hunter from Kentucky |
who was standing on the bank.
"Bill, you always were dam,
fool" snarled the fat man, pulling |
his mule out by the bride and shak-
ing the mud out of his own ears. |
"Here they come again." and the /
dogs swept past on top of the ittl,
rise, everybody let out a howl of de !
light except the fellows who were il
the ditch; they both cussed because |
they had crawled up the wrong side
and had to recross.
The race was on in earnest now. |
The men on the fast horses were up
with the dogs-the rest of the field
strung out and taking short cuts
when the opportunity presented Itself.
The fox circled, giving the stragglers
a chance to be in the first fight once
more, and what they lacked in speed
they made up in enthusiasm.
A small streams meandered gently |
along through the meadows. Redbird, !
hard pressed, darted down the creek. |
and out through bunch of willows,
up came the pack, lightning fast, over
went the men riding jumpers.
A blue roam horse made an effort
to get over, struck the opposite bank
and fell back, the rider going COM
pletely over his head, and lit on his
hands and knees with a grunt, picked
himself DIP, gave a look at his mount
in the water and then started off at
full speed, after the dogs, on foot, his
cut-away riding coat tails standing
out so straight behind him one could