AN EXTRAORDINARY FOX HUNT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2161, 15 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN EXTRAORDINARY FOX HUNT.

A very extraord,inary'occurrence ha* iust happened at a run with the E ist K^nt Foxhounds at a street at Whitfi*ld, nn a nt Dover. It having 1 been reported to the master of the huut, J^r Sworder, that three foxes had been seen to ascend a tree a short distance off, n paHy was dispatched to the tree which was covered with ivy, nnd at least twenty feet high. The report proved to be true, and the first whip swarmed the tree and very soon dislodged a fox. He gave the hunt a good ringing run, hut the scent became bad, and he eventually escaped. The meet then returned to tho same tree, and the whip being- sent up succeeded in dislodging 1 , amid great; excitement, fox number two. Unfortunately the hound* were too near the tree, and before Reynard had recovered his equilibrium after his fall he was run into and chopped. It whs que<tioned whether it wa? possible there uould be a third fox up the tree, but on the whip again ascending the tree down came the third fox. He had more law, and with a good start led a rinering run to Lord Gmnvillo's covert, Villa Vita, c!o-e on the South Foreland, and running on the cliff for some distance was eventually run into.

" A lass (alas) lam no more!" as the girl said when she got married. There is a reJport that the destiny of the Great Eastern is that of becoming a great hotel in mid-Atlantic, also & store, house for ships, also a couuting-house for the transaction of business, also a post- office. It is an odd idea ; at least there would be novelty in it. The President of the TJnited StatM must be an American by birth, over 35 years of age, and have resided 14 years in the United States. Tlio only offices for which citizens of foreign birth are not eligible are those President and vicePresident. David Pugh, of Caersws, Montgomeryshire, has died at the age of 102 years. He is a native of Llan-y-Mawddy Merionethshire, worked as a joiner for nearly forty years on Lord Sudeley's Trea;yrion estate, and continued at his trade within a few days of his death. He was active, aixd his faculties were bright and clear. A Scene from Real Life.— The following colloquy occurred recently between a Good Samaritan and a London street waif :— " Is your father kind to you ?" A nod of the head was the reply. " Does your mother beat you ?" A shake of the head was the reply. "Why did you leave home?" "Mudder told us to go an' get somethin' to eat." " But why didn't yon go back ?" " Didn't get nothin'." " Where did you go to ?" " Went, to see de world." "How far did you go?' "Whitechapel." "Where did you go to there?" "To de pudden shop." 11 To buy something ?" " No, to look in." "When was that?" "De night 1 ran away." " Well, but you did not stop looking in at tne window the whole evening?" "Yes, we did." ''And where did you to at night?" "Slep' in de water-closet." *• What, in the street opposite ?" " Yes." " What did you do next day ?" " Went to de pudden shoo." " What, all the day f» "Yes." "Did yon have anything to eat?" "Yes, a gentleman gey me a penny, and we bought some pudden." " And where did you a,o to that night?" " Slep' in de closet." "That was Wednesday. What did you do on Thursday morning— the morning of our feast?" "Went to de pudden shop." " Did you stay there all day?" "Yes, till de man gey me a ticket." "What do you want now?" " Somethin' to eat for Sissy and me."