Word: huntsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constantly and unsuccessfully to kill Two Toes. Last fortnight he and his pack killed 14 goats in one day. Describing this as murder, Sheriff E. L. Cooper and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest of his life...
...Spraggs, Pa., last week, a doughty company of huntsmen sat down to a dinner of chicken pie. It was the banquet tendered by the losers to the winners of one of Greene County's immemorial varmint-hunts. Useful, unique, the latest Greene County hunt was last week described by one who knows Greene County (John H. Day of the Washington, Pa., Observer) as follows...
...unwritten laws of this sport. Teams may combine efforts in ridding a certain property of rats. Guns, clubs and traps are variously used in their destruction. The rats will be brought from cover in an organized drive and as many as can be killed are mowed down by competing huntsmen. Village dumps and old grist mills are favorite rat rendezvous...
...whereabouts of the stag is told to the master by the harbourer. Steady hounds, called "tufters," are then thrown into cover and having found a warrantable deer, bay him until he is forced to an open run which is fun for the mounted huntsmen. The hounds, when they finally run down the tired stag, should hold him at bay rather than bite him to death...