Word: foxhound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue had cast...
Henry J. Fisher, estate-owner of Greenwich, Conn., is fond of peace and quiet. One morning last week, his morning slumbers were rudely disturbed at six o'clock by the baying of a full-throated foxhound in the grounds hard by the house. Disgruntled, too angry for mere words, sleepy Henry J. Fisher did what any one else might, or might not, have done. He seized a shotgun, drew a sportsman's aim, blew the hound's life...
...made Connaught O'brien with dusky hair and slender perfections and a strong but quiet tongue, and Dermot McDermot honorable, sure in his saddle and loved by dogs-of which there are many about-terriers, deerhounds, foxhound packs and puppies, and the red setter Rory. He wrote the love-making of these two as a slow, certain thing of wry humor and restrained ecstasy, and, as the Irish are, a little...
...Dido, foxhound of Midlothian, Va., gave birth to 26 puppies in a single litter. Experts declare the interesting event breaks the existing record by 10 puppies...