this time we heard another hound com¬ 
ing our way, and as we listened the 
dog came nearer and nearer, and you 
who know the northern fox - hunting 
game know how a fellow’s circulation 
picks up, how the perspiration starts 
even on a cold winter’s morning, and 
how a fox hunter anxiously watches 
every field to catch the first glimpse of 
an oncoming fox. We didn’t have to 
wait long with that hound driving 
along and getting nearer every minute 
before we saw a graceful red form slip¬ 
ping silently through a field, and luck 
this time was with Mr. Sturgis, Jr., 
who killed that big dog-fox at about 
45 yards. 
Business back home made it neces¬ 
sary for me to start toward home, but 
the others went on hoping to get an¬ 
other fox up. I had gone about a mile 
toward home when I heard the dogs 
coming my way with a fox ahead, and 
to me their music was the sweetest 
music ever. On they came,- running 
like the wind—trailing very close, per¬ 
haps a quarter of a mile behind their 
freshly started fox. I had to run about 
thirty yards to get out of sight behind 
an old stone fence, and I was hardly 
hidden and in position to use a gun 
quickly when I saw the fox coming my 
way. On he came to the brow of the 
hill which I was on, then he stopped 
forty-one yards from me, and quick as 
a flash turned his tail toward me and 
looked back toward the dogs. I could 
barely see him because of a raise of 
ground between us, and the feeling 
came over me that his next move would 
be to the right or left, which would 
take him out of my sight; so I fired the 
right barrel of my old Ithaca, giving 
him a booster from behind, and it sure¬ 
ly is hard to stop a tough old fox when 
you have to fire at the end he carried 
his brush on, but he dropped and lay 
with his feet up while I ran about 20 
feet toward him, then he jumped up 
and ran down the hill as fast as he 
could with one hind leg out of com¬ 
mission, and, of course, I poked the 
other barrel of my Ithaca at him at a 
distance of about forty-five yards; 
another tail end shot, of course, and 
he fell rolling over and over, then he 
got and scrambled along a lot faster 
than I could, so I slipped two more 
shells in the Ithaca and took a third 
shot at him with his tail toward me as 
before, and as before he went down 
and for the last time. By this time 
the dogs came along, and what a fuss 
they made over that tough old fox! 
When I skinned him I found four B-B 
shot in his hams, two more a little 
farther in front—one on each side of 
his neck and two on the very top of 
one shoulder—one through the ear and 
one had cut the skin between his ears, 
twelve B-B shot in all—and I’ll bet a 
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