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FOREST AND STREAM. 
makes a "home run" when told by his master to "hunt 
'em out." Peter Flint. 
loii Carnegie Hall, N. Y. City. 
The Fox Can Reason. 
Ffora the Richmond Times. 
Cavt. John B. Eaves, chairman of the Republican 
State Coinmittee; J. C. L. Harris, secretary of the com- 
mittee; Robert W. Logan, United States Commissioner, 
and J. D. Miller, all except Harris living in the town of 
Rutherfordton, N. C, were one spring morning chasing 
a fox. It was a cool, crisp morning, and there was just 
enough dampness on the leaves and grass to enable the 
dogs to scent Reynard without making a break. The 
chase had been going on for two hours and more, and 
the forty dogs in the pack had been making the welkin 
ring. The fox was running around in a circle not over 
three miles across, and the hunters at sunrise had as- 
sembled on a knoll about the center of the circle which 
overlooked the territory which Reynard appeared to have 
circumscribed for himself in his jaunt with the dogs. 
The music of the dogs was inspiring and the race was 
perfect in almost every feature that goes to make this 
sport the most delightful. The knoll overlooked a ravine 
about lOO yards distant from where the hunters had 
taken their stand. Across the ravine a giant and vener- 
able chestnut tree had fallen, and the devastation of time 
and the elements had caused the bark to drop from the 
tree. Miller was the leader of the hunters, and while 
standing on the knoll, as Napoleon did at Marengo, Aus- 
terlitz and Waterloo, he saw the fox come into sight 
with the dogs 400 or 500 yards behind him. The fox 
ran straight to the chestnut tree and disappeared therein. 
Up to this time it was not known that the log was hol- 
low. The length of the chestnut across the ravine was 
about seventy-five feet. As quick as the fox could have 
traveled through the log he came out on the opposite 
side of the ravine and made off through the forest. The 
dogs ran to the log and there lost the trail. The hunters 
watched them for a few minute^, and then Miller called 
them across the ravine and put them on the trail, and 
away they went in full cry after the fox. 
In about thirty minutes the fox came in sight again 
with his tail up and showing no sign of weariness. The 
dogs were somewhat further behind than before. The 
linnters watched the fox, and again he ran into the log 
and out on the opposite side. The dogs halted again and 
v/erc put on the trail by Miller. The fox was gone about 
thirty minL.tes again, came back and again ran through 
the log. Tla's was the third time the fox had gone 
through the log, and Miller remarked that every time he 
came out of the log he looked as if he had been rested 
and was fresh for the race. The dogs were becoming 
wearied. The chase had been going on for nearly five 
hours, and after the fox made his fourth entrance into 
and exit from the chestnut log Miller went to the end 
of the log where the fox came out each time and securely 
stopped it up. In about thirty minutes the fox ran into 
the log for the fifth time. Miller then stopped up the 
other end of the log and then cut into the log and ex- 
tracted therefrom three full-grown foxes. 
Great Dane Cltib of America. 
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Great 
Dane Club of America, held at the Ashland House, New 
York, on Nov. 18, 1902, at 7:30 P. M., pursuant to notice, 
there were piesent Messrs. J. Blackburn Miller, G. Muss 
Arnolt, John Hartmetz, Frank Rappolt and C. H. Mant- 
ler. Mr. J._ Blackburn Miller in the chair. The minutes 
of the previous meeting were read and approved. 
It was decided not to offer any special prizes at the 
Philadelphia show, as the club could not indorse Mr. F. 
Freeman-Lloyd as judge of Great Danes. 
The application of the Merrimack Valley Kennel Club 
was also refused, as the name of the judge of Great. 
Danes was not mentioned in their letter. It was moved' 
and seconded to offer a club medal for the best dog, and 
a club medal fo'r best bitch at the Rhode Island Kennel 
Club Dog Show, to be held in Providence Jan. 20-22, 
1903, as Mr. James Mortimer, the judge of Great Danes 
at this show, is acceptable to the club. 
It was further decided not to offer specials at the com- 
ing Westminster Kennel Club bench show until the classi- 
fication and the judge of Great Danes has been submitted 
to the club. 
Mr. J. Blackburn Miller, the president of the club, pre- 
sented the same with a silver cup, to be known as the 
President's Challenge Cup, for the best American-bred 
Great Dane under fifteen months of age, bred, owned and 
exhibited by a member of the Great Dane Club of Amer- 
ica, and to be won twice hy the same exhibitor before be- 
coming his absolute property. Winner to receive a club 
medal in commemoration of the award, and the cup to 
be offered for competition annually at the Westminster 
Kennel Club Show. The thanks of the club were ex- 
tended to the donor of the cup. 
C. H. Mantler, Secretary. 
The Minister's Dogf. 
The R^v. A. N. Blatchford tells a story illustrating the 
modern desire for short sermons. A country vicar, he 
said, once went to fill the pulpit of a colleague who was 
temporarily absent from home. After the service he 
thought he would gauge the effect of his discourse by the 
opinion of that -"ery fair index of public feeling, the 
parish clerk. 
"Well, Rogers," he said, "did you like my sermon?" 
"I did," was the reply. 
"1 hope I wasn't too long?" he anxiously inquired. 
"No, you wasn't too long about it," rejoined Rogers. 
"Well, then," said the vicar, "I hope I wasn't too 
short." 
"No," answered Rogers, "nor yet too short, neither, 
ypu was-just about right." 
The vicar felt relieved, and said, "I'm glad of that, 
because, to tell you the truth, while I was writing that 
sermon my little dog got hold of four of the folios and 
destroyed them, and I was afraid it would be too short." 
Rogers looked very thoughtful for a moment, and then 
very confidentially remarked: "Lor', now, did he? I 
suppose you wouldn't mine lettin' our vicar 'oirj^ '^r? 'aye 
a pup o' your do^?"-rr-Torgnt.o Empire, 
