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During my 25 years of fox-hunting I have been present at a few kills, but never have I beheld a woman, either decent or indecent, holding aloft a fox's brush (or tail, to the Bishop), with the field of 30 or 40 yelling "Trophy...
...very fine coating of shellac makes an excellent base. This should be put on the skis with a cloth (not a brush) in order to obtain an absolutely smooth surface...
...Lear's Nonsense Rhymes, Lewis Carroll's Jabber-wacky. This week's exhibition did not disdain the art of the frankly insane. There was a panel of wild designs by a crazed French banknote engraver, a drawing of something like a perverted rooster from the inspired brush of an ecstatic Czech...
...boomed a prayer. Master of Hounds John Aiken Rowan raised a Texas steer horn to his lips, blew long & loud. At this signal the hounds were loosed and, amid a great uproar of babbling dogs, roaring engines and shouting men, women & children, the whole assembly moved off into the brush. Thus began :he 1936 field trials of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association, biggest "wolf hunt" in U. S. history...
With their dogs cooped in trailers behind sturdy automobiles, Texas wolf hunters gather at 2 or 3 a. m., motor far out into the brush. Best time to cast the hounds is just before daybreak, when the land is wet and the dogs, running with heads up. can catch the wolf's strong scent from the bushes. Loosed, the dogs spread out fanwise, baying when they catch the trail. Behind them ride the huntsmen, bouncing 'hell bent over rough prairie, plowed ground and fields of cotton stalks. The coyote may run for several hours, stray far afield...