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The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource], Reports of the Secretaries. (search)
er tail. This fox became so well known, that the hunters would call off their dogs when they found they were in pursuit of him. He knew the sound of the horn as well as the hunter did, and as soon as he heard the latter blowing up his dogs preparatory to a start for home, he was up and off over the hills, like a streak of lightning. He never could be taken napping. It was said that on one occasion, he led a pack of hounds from a point about half a mile above the present residence of Dr. Reynolds Trent, to Bolling's Island, a distance of at least fifteen miles as the crow flies, and that he camped at night within a few hundred yards of the spot whence he started in the morning. On that famous day, he broke down every horse, and threw every dog out of the chase. Several hunters, at different times, reported that they had captured old "silver tail," but he was like John Barleycorn, up again as soon as the next pack came along.--The hunters were deceived. There were other Richmonds i