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FOX HOUND

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There was considerable year about Hiram Clinton and his fox hounds. For awhile we thought the local sportsman club would gang up into a vigilante committee and hike out to Hi's farm and may-be resort to a bit of old-fashioned chastisement in order to make him cease his activities. Hi owned a farm out on the Ran-

It wasn't much of dolph road. farm, being stony and unproductive, but Hi wasn't much of a farmer either. He lived' alone with his fox hounds.

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He owned two hounds and they were the best anywhere around. During the fox hunting season Hi hunted foxes, and he shot enough to provide him with money enough to meager needs the year round.

After all, there was no faw against a man shooting a fox that was chasing his dog...

Around 11 o'clock, Ed Prescott, see- ing that they were getting nowhere and having ideas of his own, suggest- Mel ed that a committee be appointed to look into the matter further. Graham readily appointed a committee with Ed as its chairman, and the meet- ing was adjourned. .

We can't

We

Pete

The next day Ed rounded up his committee and talked turkey to them,

"The law's on his side. expect no help from that angle. gotta do something ourselves."

"What supply his

you got in mind?” Fisher asked.

So then Ed told him his idea about tails. becoming vigilantes and hiking out to would Hi's place with a cat-o'-nine

the cat-o'-nine. tails Maybe appeal to Hi's sense of sportsmanship better than mere words.

The committee agreed that this was None of 'em had ever a fine idea, and got pretty excited over the prospect. liked Hi anyway.

During the summer Hi fished and trained his dogs and slept and worked a half acre of garden to provide him with vegetables. No one in town liked him much, especially the members of the sportsman club.. They had asked Hi to join the club, but he refused, and this made the members mad. But Hi didn't care. He knew why they wanted him to join. They wanted to hunt with his dogs, and he never let anyone hunt with those dogs of his, and he didn't care a hang whether anyone liked it or not.

Last summer Hi bought himself a new dog, and when fox hunting sea- son came along he began to bring in pelts in surprisingly large quantities It occurred to Ed Prescott that Hi was fetching in altogether too many pelts, and Ed wondered aloud to Peto Fisher if he were disobeying the law, perhaps,

So about eight o'clock that night an automobile turned into Hi's yard and six men got out and strode up to the kitchen door. There was a light inside and through the window they could see Hi sitting at his kitchen table with Ed was just his chin in his hands.. about to yell at him, but Pete Fisher the others held up his hand for silence. Pete had seen something that all noticed a second later.

There was a box on the floor beside the table and inside the box was a dog.

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and maybe poisoning some foxes.

As the of those Obviously the dog was dead.

committee watched, Hi bent down and Pete stroked the dog's silky coat and great keeps tearCoursed down his cheek and outter droppet into the back of his hand.

Thetpommittes looked at each other. of us

awe-struck. They were appalled and The sight of a hard old chestnut like Hi Clinton crying like a woman always affects men that way.

"Mebbe that's that answer,' agreed, "Anyways, if this up Hi will clean the locality foxes and then none o' the rest will have any shootin.'"

"Pete," said Ed, "let's you and me go out an' have a look around."

So Ed and Pete went out to Hi's farm one day and hung around put of sight, and what they saw made them, They raging mad.

came roaring back to town and called a meeting of the Sportsmen's club and explained what they had found out.

Ed,

However, this was no time for The vigilantes had come sympathy. for a purpose. They huddled toget her and at length it was decided for Ed to go in alone and have a talk with Hi and find out what had happened.

So Ed went in and about ten minutes later he come out. "Boys," he said, "let's go home."!

"You can believe it or not "but that there double-croi has trained the foxen to the

On the way back to town he told us there now pup of his, Instead

what had happened. That morning, as ing the pup to chase the foxes,

“Eh!" said Mel Graham, prefrontal. Hi sent his new dog out to be of the club,

chased by a for. A half hour later. "The heard the pup heading back for the house, and he cocked his gun and got he heard a nd another. ready. But as he wait Yelp, and then, an He thürrled up the are road and a strange chasing the ith it and at..

"Eh,” is right," says Peta.

Hi musta caught a live fox pup last summer and and spent his

nin' it to chase his new

Billy when you come to t

that sits will cha

loved his ything. for not fox

tead club.