FOREST AND STREAM 
298 
AFTER GREY FOX IN ALABAMA. 
By W. G. Brasfield. 
On Tuesday evening August 4th, I met my 
friend Archie Patterson on the street and we 
made up a hunt for the following Saturday 
night; about four miles below Demopolis. 
Archie has five nice hounds recently purchased 
in Kentucky. Their names are Florence, Sundy, 
Red, Dixie and Lynn all of which are fast run¬ 
ners and good trailers. Mine are Punch, Scream¬ 
er, Wheeler and Syd of the Walker Strain. In 
all we had nine good hounds. 
Saturday at last arrived, bringing with it 
rain and clouds in plenty all day and until half 
past ten. I then called off the hunt while up 
town, but before I could walk home it was as 
clear as a bell with a full moon and all the 
stars out. The phone rang; it was Rube Wilson 
saying, “Let’s go.” I told him to call Archie 
over the phone and let him know and to meet 
us at the fork of the road between Jefferson and 
Old Spring Hill. There was a hustle to harness 
horses; in a few minutes Rube Wilson, Askew 
and myself and a negro who keeps my dogs 
(Foster Scott) were off. We arrived at the fork 
a little ahead of the other fellows, but by the 
time we had smoked a pipe, we heard their horn 
over the hill, then a mix up of dogs and then 
up rode Archie with his brother Lee and Mr. 
Watson. 
From there to the Kelley place is about a 
mile, so off we went with men and dogs alike 
eager for the race. At about half past twelve 
we had ridden as far as we could on account 
of fences, horses tied and the hunt was on. Out 
across two or three hills and valleys, we heard 
the sharp, deep baying of Wheeler, then Dixie 
in with him, then way over to the right of them 
Punch came out with his sweet tones and right 
there the pack was split for a short time, a few 
going to Punch and the others to Wheeler and 
Dixie, but, numbers will prevail, so Sundy, Punch 
and Red joined the pack and started on a cold 
trail winding over hill and vale for more then 
two hours with many a break in the trail where 
it looked as though the fox had gotten up and 
flown for some distance. Finally the track had 
warmed up and the pack was trailing down a 
hillside, now out into an old sedge field and up 
he went not over fifty yards from Archie and 
me with every dog in full cry, running straight 
for Old Spring Hill which was in a short dis¬ 
tance of this place. Archie said they would 
come back where we were, so we walked over in 
that direction, now we could just hear them, then 
all is still for they have gone out of hearing 
and I said he never would come back so we 
walked on. Suddenly we could hear my dog 
Screamer very faintly; so on we went until we 
could hear them all seemingly in one place. I 
told Archie the fox was dodging so let’s make 
haste; then all was silent for a few minutes. Did 
you ever hear a fellow yell who had never seen 
a fox? We had three of those fellows in our 
crowd, all the dogs in full cry again for about 
ten minutes, then all was still with Archie and 
myself a.bout a half mile from the crowd, then 
three long blasts of a horn and we knew it was 
all over. 
This fox ran just fifty minutes from the time 
he jumped until I heard the horn. In this time 
he had taken a tree twice, so indeed one of the 
prettiest races I have heard in a long time. 
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