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FIELD NOTES


“Fishing for Foxes 1901”


Fishing Begins in Greenbrier - May 2, 1901
A Young Fox is the First Victim

Last Sunday, Cavendish Ludington, a famous fox hunter of Greenbrier County, was watching a cave in which foxes make their home each year. The cave is very extensive, and red and gray foxes take refuge in it. This year a family of red foxes and another of grays have their quarters on either side of one of the rooms of the cave.

The little foxes, which are about the size of a half grown cat, came out to play last Sunday, and Mr. Ludington watched them from the top of the cliff about eight feet above the mouth of the cave. The foxes would look at the man and stay near the mouth of the cave. The hunter put a bit of bread on a fish hook and let it down, and one of the baby foxes snapped at it and was borne up to the top of the cliff and captures. Last year a whole family of foxes was destroyed at this place by stopping the entrance when the old ones were gone. When they returned they were shot, and the little ones came out as tame as cats.

Calvin W. Price.