FUNNY FOX, THIS
Was Too Tame To Make Fun For
Pursuers
It isn't often a real fox hunt is given
within tho limits of this city, so the much talked-of event scheduled to start from Brendlinger's hotel, Roxborough, yesterday
noon, drew out several hundred persons
from that and other sections of the country. Unfortunately the affair was hardly a
success, the fox being such a tame creature
that it wanted to be petted instead of
chased. That did not, however, prevent a
lot of excitement and a jolly good time.
The first hitch came when the master of
the hounds from the Merion Hunt declined
to bring his pack to Philadelphia county,
lest the cruelty agents should prevent the
chase. So Miss Fox, for it was a female,
was carted over to Patrick Raegan's farm
at West Manayunk, Montgomery county,
whither she was followed by a score of
mounted huntsmen and a crowd of sports.
The fox was loosed at 3 o'clock, but despite numerous warlike demonstrations on
the part of the crowd she walked quietly,
to the centre of a field and then spying a
choice piece of poultry started after a square meal. Nothing could induce her to try to escape until she finally took refuge in a clump of bushes.
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