Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Any body who has heard Rory O’Mory’s famous story of the fox, in Lover’s amusing play of that name, will confess that it is not quite equal to the following, which we get from the St. Johnsbury Caledonian, a Vermont paper:
Last week in the town of Newbury, a fox hunter, with two hounds, got upon the tract of a poor fox, which was pursued until the close of the day. Fox found matters were drawing to a desperate crisis with him-and just at this time the whistle of the railroad train was heard, when he struck off in the direction, and approached the track just as the train came up, and leaped it immediately preceding the engine, and the two hounds close in pursuit. Each hound was caught by the wheels of the engine-the foremost lost about a foot of his tail, and the one in the rear was cut off just behind his hips-and off went Fox ‘alone in his glory.’ However improbable this may appear we are assured by a Director of the road that is a fact.”