really come to enjoy the sport. <A 
“possum” hunter, who came clamber- 
ing down the cliffs to the spot where we 
stood about the dead.-fox, told us 
about it. 
He said that when the hounds first 
came out of the valley and over the 
bench of the mountain he was standing 
near the brink of the ledge, where a 
long cliff or column of almost solid rock 
extended upon either side of him some 
four or five hundred yards. When he 
heard the hounds come up the bench he 
stepped back behind the brush and 
watched the whole proceeding; pres- 
ently, “clipity, clipity, clip” came the 
fox and darted through a small thicket, 
disappearing over the brink of the cliff. 
Next came “the Stranger,” belting it 
hard, and not a hundred.yards be- 
hind the balance of the pack. “The 
Stranger” dashed straight on by, some 
50 yards, then whirled, and circling a 
couple of times thrust his way through 
the small thicket at the brow of the cliff 
and howled. Then he heard the noise 
of the scramble and a scrape, and a 
heavy thud at the bottom of the cliff, 
some 40 feet below, and “the 
Stranger’s” voice in full cry, running 
again, straight from the valley. Upon 
examination he found that an ash tree 
grew from within 10 feet of the bottom 
of the ledge to the top, and leaning near 
the summit, within 3 feet. When the 
fox had disappeared over the bluff he 
had simply jumped upon this leaning 
tree and ran it down. It was an easy 
trick for a fox, but a most hazardous 
feat for a dog to attempt, but “the 
Stranger” did it gamely, and though it 
bunged and bruised him and cost him 
a broken rib, it made him the pride of 
the pack and the prime favorite of 
every fox hunter in all the country. 
There was no other place in a quarter 
of a mile of either side of the ash tree 
where the cliff could be climbed by any- 
thing, and the tactics of the “old beater” 
heretofore had always been to run his 
race gamely till he tired, then make for 
his tree and climb up and sit on the 
bluff till the hounds worked their way 
round and slip down the tree and sit 
at the bottom till they worked round 
again, and then run up again and down, 
and so on, and so on, till they were 
_ worried out and entirely beaten. 
We had the tree chopped down that 
very night by the “’possum hunter” and 
went home with the finest brush of the 
season. After the chase “the Stranger” 
had a home everywhere he went and 
was fattened and feasted by all hands. 
He has long since gone where the good 
dogs go, but he led the chase for 
many a year and left many illustrious 
descendants, some of whom are famous 
pack leaders to this day; but the man 
who owns one most like “the Stranger” 
is considered the most fortunate. 
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In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 
The Sneak-a-Duck 
(Continued from page 31) 
But we must get back to our subject. 
The contrivance which is shown in this 
story will absolutely bring home the 
dark meat when nothing else will work. 
It is not necessary to crawl on your 
hands and knees several hundred yards 
when you can roll up on wheels. 
UNTERS out here are accustomed 
to taking long range shots which 
for the most part are without results 
except for the ammunition dealers. 
Since building the “Sneak-a-Duck,” I 
have secured all the shots I want at 
ranges of from fifteen to thirty yards. 
It all depends on how close you care to 
get. The following directions and speci- 
fications will give you an idea of how 
to build the machine but the dimensions 
may vary with the size and weight of 
the hunter: 
Three things should be remembered 
in the construction and operation of 
one: First, make it plenty strong to 
support your weight and added pres- 
sure. Second, use light material and 
wheels that will not cut into the ground. 
Third, take plenty of time in placing 
your weed screen, as the whole secret 
is to be completely eovered so you will 
appear as a large weed rolling slowly 
toward the lake. 
The material used is good quality 
1X4 white pine. Use 6d nails and for 
wheels get any small strong wheel but 
it is preferable to use small bicycle 
wheels about 16 inchs in diameter. My 
frame is 4 feet long by 3% feet wide. 
The two back wheels are set inside the 
frame four inches, which is done by 
laying one strip of 1x4 on the outside. 
This gives the axles better support than 
if the wheels were placed on the out- 
side. The front wheel is placed in the 
center. 
HE complete outfit is a cross work 
of frame slats having two wheels 
about 1 ft. from the rear and one front 
wheel in the center. After the frame is 
completed, wire netting is placed in 
front of the platform and partly around 
the sides. A tow sack is cut and tacked 
so as to drag on the ground below the 
frame and cover up any possible glim- 
mer from the wheels. The wire fence 
on top is so constructed that it will 
hold weeds. When finished, it is small 
enough to place in our car and take 
to the lake. 
The hunter drives to a lake where 
ducks are seen on the bank and stops 
several hundred yards away. The 
“Sneak-a-Duck” is taken out and placed 
in position facing the lake. Large 
tumble weeds or other weeds are spiked 
into the wire in front and on the sides 
and the inside toe of the right boot is 
spiked with a strip of leather into which 



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