Show 1 mat MET ANECDOTES OP OR THE GRAY FOX the following anecdotes we hope may interest our readers shortly after the railroad from charleston to hamburgh S C had been constructed the tile rails for a portion odthe distance having been laid upon timbers at a considerable height from the ground supported by strong posts we observed a fox which was hard pressed by a pack of hounds moun mounting tino the rails upon which he ran several hundred yards the dogs were unable to pursue him and he thus crossed a deep cypress swamp over which the railroad was in this singular manner carried and made his escape on the opposite side the late benjamin C yancey esq an eminent lawyer who in his youth was very fond of fox buntin huntin hunting m relates the following A fox had been pid pursued sued near his residence in edye Edre edgefield field several times but the hounds always aiwas lost the track at a place where there was a footpath foot path leading down a steep hill he therefore determined to conceal himself near this declivity the next time the fox was started in order to discover his bis mode of baffling the dogs at this place the animal was ai accordingly cordingly put up and chased and first led the hounds through many bayous and ponds in the woods but at length came running nin r over the brow of the hill lull along the path stopped suddenly and spread himself out flat and motionless on the ground the hounds came down the hill in pursuit at a dashing pace and the whole pack passed and did not stop until they were at the bottom of the hi hill As soon as the immediate danger was over the fox casting a furtive glance around him started up and ran off at his greatest speed on his back track quadrupeds of america |