row path or lane, about the width re¬ 
quired for a team to pass along. It 
had probably been cut for the purpose 
of drawing out logs at some early 
date, as it plainly had not been used 
for some time. Here, I thought, was 
a fair chance for a shot. So I stood 
quietly glancing first to the right and 
then to the left. I was turning my 
eyes to either side when on my left, 
with a touch as light as that of a 
fairy, reynard hit the path. Like a 
flash, my gun hit my shoulder, but 
quickly as I had acted, reynard was 
across first and my shot left the gun 
only to bury itself in the cedar, where 
reynard had disappeared from view. 
The dogs were close on his heels, 
Belle leading, Mike close behind her, 
and Pepper about twenty yards behind. 
He appeared tired, and when he saw 
me, turned and came towards me, 
whined a couple of times as if apolo¬ 
gizing for dropping out of the chase. 
Poor little fellow, his age was begin¬ 
ning to tell on him. 
When the fox passed me, he was 
heading in the direction of the road 
on which I had left Fred, but going 
about four hundred yards that way, 
turned and again made for the north¬ 
east. As I stood listening, to get the 
direction of reynard’s latest move I 
espied coming around a bend in the 
lane on which I stood, the most 
peculiar-looking object in human form 
that it has fallen to my lot to behold. 
Picture, if you can, a little old man 
not more than four feet six inches in 
height, round-shouldered and stooped, 
with clothes that were easily four sizes 
too large. A little yellowish-red, round 
fur cap, pulled well down over his 
head, allowed only room underneath 
for two little steely gray eyes to peer 
out. About two weeks’ growth of 
dirty white whiskers, a large mouth, 
from the corners of which two streaks 
of tobacco juice had dribbled down to 
the lower jaw, and stained the beard in 
two lines resembling long fangs, added 
much to his grotesque appearance. 
“Them your dogs?” he squeaked in a 
high-pitched voice. “Yes,” I replied, 
“they are running a fox. I got a shot 
but he was too quick for me.” “Is he 
red?” He trilled in his peculiar little 
squeak, and I fancied that I noticed a 
certain anxiety in him that told me he 
knew of one in the swamp that was not 
red, probably silver or black. “Yes, 
red,” I replied, “a good-sized fellow.” 
“Do you see that tree?” he piped, 
pointing to a sapling about two inches 
thick that was clawed and chewed off 
about a foot from the ground. “I 
caught a coon there last week that 
weighed twenty-eight pounds.” And 
he rubbed his parchment-like hands 
together, as if warming them over 
an imaginary fire. “You trap this 1 
swamp?” I asked. “Yes, I have as 
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