| Show killing the lox fox l ox we had bad hunted up and down dow n the n rides des or tor for the greater part of a day and finally filially with the scent at its hottest we seemed alid hi to have lost the fox in the neighborhood IE de of a little cottage with a pig pigsty sty tacked a on to it the hounds bounds were giving tongue aj around the pigsty whilo while its occupants protested with no lesa les 9 noise tho tb 0 hub oil 01 bubnas tremendous and the tumult inie creased tenfold when the second whip 0 climbed the sty ety palings and began to a search the tenement for the missing fox m there was no sign of him still the n q hounds bounds kept giving tongue around the he h dwelling as it the fox fos were there the 11 in whip after drawing the lie pigsty blank knocked at the cottage door and receil K ing noon no answer entered the olo inmate was a bedridden old woman who protested with vehemence equal to the pigs against this invasion of her privacy adding that no fox fos could possibly have come in for tho the door had bad not been opened since her graudon grandson had bad gone out to work in the morning the man in pink was about to retire with apologies when a bold hound bound burst in through the door with a terrible burst of melody lie ho stopped to abic no questions of the lie poor old lady but went under the bed like a tiger more hounds dashed in the there was a scuffle and it a worry under the bed shrieks from tho the poor old woman that lay on it farious death notes of the hounds bounds and in a second or two all was over it took a deal of silver aud and consolation to make the lady realize that tho the hounds had not dot killed her as well as the fox fos sho she baill protested sole solemnly that the fox fos could not cot the cottage because the door had bad been shut all the time but it was obvious enough 0 from tho the sootiness rea of the old fellows coat that his way in had bad been not through the he door but down tho the chimney Mac Macmil lana magazine |
