Milford chronicle., 1937-02-19

hOHudy. lHey H1eI ABOUT HdlI wa
between Milford and Houston wit
fifty or more days, jumped the 70
at 1880 a. m. and broke the las
dog at about 0 D. m.
The fox was an old rOunder VIII
) not. only knows all the territory fa
several miles around, but also has
box of tricks up his sleeve TO tur
loose whenever an opportunity pre-
sents itself or the occasion demand
1t.
Some of the hunters say he ca
tell the time of day, and it did lool
so, for he just played around witt
the dogs, leading them arOun,
through the thickets and came Ou
along the edge of the fields 10 Civ,
the hunters a good view of him, un
til the dogs would get too close
then duck back under cover to get ;
little start. He was waiting for tha
southbound train, which he knew
would be along any minute, anC
when he heard her blow for grade
crossing he put himself down the
middle of the tracks and ran it for
a mile until he got all those dogs
scattered down the track; then he
scampered off through the woods to
let the train do the rest. Just imag-
inc who would have happened had
IL not been that Arthur Mills, the en-
gineer, was on his job and had Il
feeling for both the hunters and the
doss. He saw the track full of dogs
AMI stopped his train and held her
there until he was sure all the dogs
were out of danger before he started
for which all thc hunters cUt only
gave him a vote of thanks also
a small reward, to show their graf
itude.
The writer does not claim the hon.
or of being a member of this club,
in the first place / do not own any
fox dogs, although keep pack of
hounds, / do not hunt them for that
purpose / get more kick out of so
ing around where the hunters con-
gregate after the hunt; which is
usually Hills Cafe" and listen to
each hunter and dog owner give his
version of the chase as he saw it,
and | hear some very conflicting /
stories.
Not that | doubt a word that any i
of my fellow hunters say, for it !
would be hard for me to believe that /
a hunter or fisherman would be
guilty of telling a tall story inten-
tionally, although we are all liable !
to mistakes. But there is one thing
] can't quite understand, and from
what little experience | have had
hunting, | admit it has me stumped.
That is how each of those twenty
five or thirty dog owners can have a
dog leading the same pack all at
the same time. | just wanted to see
for myself how it was done. so hear
ing they were having this big meet |
took this opportunity to learn some
thing. | saw an old fox hunter on
the street who claimed he knows
each fox ~ name, knows his route
and Just where to meet him. AS
first had my doubts about that but
toward the last | began TO believe
it, for every turn the fox would
make he would tell me where he
was going to cross. and ! don't re-
of him ever missing. | saw
the fox so often that he seemed to
me toward the last. This
man is none other than the honor
able Noble PoOre We sure heard
and saw plenty.
An old friend, Frank Robinson,
vho was visiting me from Pulaski.
Va, brought pair of his Blue Ridge
Mountain blue ribbon winners" up {
lere to give these dogs few lessons '
N how to run fox. He calls them l
he Walker strain. He wouldn't say v
nything about them to the rest of ]
he boys. He kept it up his sleeve so !
e would spring a surprise on them, ?
ut | think his dogs sprans big
er one on him. a
For the first two hours they were
yers, led everything, even came Z
head of the fox a few times, but u
'hen their tank of gas began to run
DIV they settled down and behaved
There was a gentleman in the
rowd who had a dog somewhere in
he pack. He was one of those kind
{ fellows who couldn't see nor hear p
ny other dog but his. and he tried ci
D keep everyone else from hearing t.
nything. Every time the dogs came 7
n sight if black dog was ahead. d.
e would run up and down the road m
alling everyone's attention to it.
Look, boys, you see him, don't you? et
hats my black dog ahead" until bt
Id Reynard took them on sight T
eeing trip, led them out around HI
over near the Harrington
lir grounds. down to Pennington, in
cross to Williamsville. on over to III
and so on. al
They didn't go far on this trip be- al