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Arrived at these, while the soft air gradually 
grew harsh and chill and the declining sun sank 
deeper and deeper into a dense mass of clouds 
that skirted the western horizon while the taper¬ 
ing shadows crept on apace, the hunters threw 
themselves prone upon the dunes and detached 
knolls and watched and waited impatiently for 
some sign, but heard nothing. Their blood from 
their previous exertion and long continuance in 
one posture ran chill in their veins, and for the 
best part of two hours they waited, hoping 
against hope. No sound had broken the still¬ 
ness save a single report of a gun which, com¬ 
ing from the direction where they expected the 
colonel might naturally be and sounding as was 
fancied, somewhat like his detonator, they be¬ 
came more and more convinced it was, indeed, 
his, and that he had fired at the fox, and know¬ 
ing they would hear the shot had then gone 
home. 
This belief grew stronger with the waning 
moments, and after standing it until they be¬ 
came satisfied there was no hope of getting any 
sight at the fox, even if he was started, and 
the colonel had not stopped him, Truesdale rose 
and with a wave of his hand beckoned for all 
to follow him and started for the wagon. The 
signal was obeyed with alacrity and they were 
soon on their way back to Horton’s, speculating 
on the report they had heard and wondering if 
they should find the colonel there when they 
arrived and if he had killed the fox. 
So strong was the universal opinion that it 
was the colonel’s gun they had heard that, upon 
entering the house and finding the colonel seated 
at the window, Harry exclaimed: “Where’s the 
fox? Was he a big one? Didn’t you get 
him ?” 
“No,” said the colonel. “I didn’t get him, nor 
did I fire at him, as I have not seen him. The 
dogs would not pay any more attention to that 
track, fresh made by a running fox, than if it 
had been run a week before. I put them on 
to no purpose over and over again. They would 
not even notice it enough to raise a bark. I 
followed it down along the roadside and by the 
fence where the impression of his toes was left 
plain and distinct in the soft earth, keeping the 
dogs with me until I found where he had crossed 
into the field down by the point of pine and 
then, of course, I could follow it no longer. I* 
kept on in the general course I judged the fox 
to have taken and continually encouraged the 
dogs and made every exertion to get them to 
take some interest in the business, but they evi¬ 
dently seemed to think that the affair was none 
of theirs, and it was not until I crossed the road, 
where the man with the brush cart told us he 
had seen the fox and where I detected his foot¬ 
ing again in the rut, that the dogs showed any 
signs that they winded the presence of game. 
They took hold of the track then and began to 
work it up as if they meant business, but over 
an hour had passed and I judged it to be too 
late to do anything with him, even if they got 
him a going, and from the direction he had 
taken it appeared to me that he had struck for 
the Three Lights on the wrecker’s beach, and 
that he would run in that direction rather than 
back to his own country. Even if he should be 
started and make for your positions the chance 
would be small, at so late an hour as he would 
be likely to reach you owing to the gathering 
darkness, for anyone to see well enough to 
notice the tawny cheat as he stole by you. 
Wishing, moreover, to have the dogs fresh to¬ 
morrow, which you know is the last day of grace 
for us,* I determined to right-about-face and 
return, knowing that you would decide after a 
reasonable time had elapsed that there was no 
sight and would accordingly come in yourselves.” 
“Yes, but,” said Corranus, “who fired that 
gun, colonel? It sounded just in your direction, 
and it is of no use for you to attempt to cheat 
us. You have played too many little games be¬ 
fore for that.” 
“As to that,” replied the colonel, “I do not 
know. I heard the gun to which you allude 
and presume it came from some wild goose hun¬ 
ter who was lying low on the bluffs to take the 
flights as they came over. Just at sundown is 
a favorable time for the geese to fly low, and 
by taking advantage of their opportunity a num¬ 
ber of these wreckers and others are enabled to 
bring down an occasional gander as a trophy 
long to be boasted about to their associates. And 
now after tea we must adjourn early to our 
couches to have an early start again. I do not 
fancy being outwitted by this fox. I believe he 
runs (after crossing over to the inside shore) 
upon the Lieutenant’s Island, and taking a turn 
there comes off across the flats to the mainland 
again, and this is the way he -throws the dogs 
off the scent.” 
“I think,” continued the colonel, “that when 
we saw the fox to-day he was just returning 
from the Lieutenant’s Island, and that he was 
following the dogs rather than that the dogs were 
following him. After leaving the island, which, 
of course, he could only do at low tide—and the 
tide to-day and yesterday was right to allow of 
this maneuver—he probably lay up in the sand 
somewhere on the beach of the mainland under 
those cliffs which there run up to the height of 
fifty to one hundred and fifty feet and are very 
steep, with overhanging brows, so that anyone 
standing on the very verge could not see either 
fox or dog that might be running beneath his 
feet. The fox from his vantage ground could 
have watched the dogs as they bothered and 
brought up, and serenely waited till they gave 
up the job, disheartened and left. Then, after 
shaking his glossy hide to discard the loose sand 
that might have gathered thereon, he deliberately 
came in after them. 
“Now, to-morrow, one man must be stationed 
near the Lieutenant’s Island, one at the hollow 
of the road where we met the fox to-day, and 
the rest at their old stands way down upon the 
outer beach, while I, as usual, give my attention 
to the dogs and travel with them.” 
This plan of the colonel’s was, of course, 
acceded to, and after partaking of hot tea and 
biscuit, with some co’d sliced meat and smok¬ 
ing a pipe, all retired to forget the toils of the 
day in the tranquillity of sleep. 
Fox Hunter. 
No Dispute There. 
The Hawaiian promotion committee recently 
offered a prize of $25 for the best suggestion 
for a catch-phrase to be used in booming the 
islands. Some one suggested “Anyway, Cook 
discovered Hawaii,” and this has been adopted. 
*This alludes to a previous wager which had been 
made regarding this fox, that he would be taken inside 
of three days. 
Jack Rabbit Destruction. 
Las Animas, Colo., Nov. 3 .— Editor Fore . 
and Stream: When I lived in Utah in the earl 
So’s, the jack rabbit was such a pest that sioch 
ade fences were built to protect the crops. A 
Fillmore, the original seat of government c 
the Territory, the elders of the church at th 
Sunday service would appoint a day for a drivi 
Captains of the hunt were selected and all th 
able-bodied inhabitants of the town—met 
women and children—turned out. No weapon 
were used save clubs. A certain section c 
territory was selected, the inhabitants of th 
town encompassed it, and the rabbits wer 
driven to its center, where they were de^ 
patched. Thousands were killed at a single driv 
As the circle grew smaller and reached th 
point where the rabbits were likely to undei 
take to break through the ranks, a scene wa 
presented ludicrous in the extreme. The se 
of rabbits, running this way and that, iumpin 
over each other and into their enemies’ face 
or against their bodies, the excitement of th 
hunters—who delivered many a sturdy bio’ 
upon the forms of their companions, the energ 
of a Mormon girl is not to be laughed at- 
presented a scene of confusion and laughabl 
incidents that would have been interesting t 
a spectator. 
Sometimes matches were made between th 
residents of different settlements. Six or mor 
men armed with shotguns were selected o 
either side; each two men to be followed 0 
horseback by a man with gunnysacks on eithe 
side of his saddle pommel to carry the rabbit: 
These sacks, as soon as filled, were carried t 
four-horse wagons following and emptied, 
was once captain of one side that killed 2,14 
rabbits, and we had to pay for the suppei 
We commenced shooting at nine o’clock in th 
morning and the rabbits were counted at 
designated place at five o’clock in the evening 
At Parowan in southern Utah, semi-circula 
drives were made and the rabbits were force 
into Parowan Lake, a body of very brackis 
water that immediately strangled the animal: 
I have sat by an alfalfa stack at Fillmore i 
the evening and shot rabbits with a double 
barrel gun until I was compelled to desist b 
reason of the heating of my gun, with th 
rabbits eating at the stack by which I sa 
The report of the gun had but little terrc ; 
for them. If they were close in, they woul 
sit up for an instant, then continue on the 
course. F. T. Webber. 
Wildfowl Scarce. 
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 3 .—Editor Forest an 
Stream: November is here, but the norther 
ducks are not. The great plenty of waterfowl ir 
land indicates the main body has chosen anothf 
route to the South. I hear that Minnesota 
finishing one of the best seasons in several year 
Likewise, I have just heard that Capt. Jah 
Sedam, of Denver, has come South after sev 
eral excellent shoots on the Bear River grounc 
near Salt Lake in Utah. Captain Sedam is 
famous shot and uses a specially built twenty 
gauge gun with 34-inch barrels, using a sixteei 
gauge load, 2% drams powder, 24 ounce she 
With this gun he killed several hundred te; 
and had several big shoots. 
Edwin L. Hedderly. 
