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Subject: [SouthernTrails] Fox huntin,what happened to it?
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 06:43:41 EDT

How ya,ll doin? I,m Phil Corder from,SC---family connections to
Parrish,Fow,Shealy,Smith,Jones,Leaphart,Bagwell,and more---anyway,my dads
gone now "Felix Corder"his g.granddad was Emanuel Martin,a 5th Sarg.w/ Ridge
Spring Reg. of SC,1861,along w/ bro. Morgan,CSA-----and he used ta take me
huntin,here in tha sandhills of SC, back in the 1950s,we,d leave fore dark,in
his pickup w/ doz. foxhounds,by dusk we,d meet up w/ my Uncle,and Granddad
Parrish,maybe, back then we had plenty empty countryside full OLD dirt
roads(semi-wilderness)in the lowerer midlands and low country of SC-----turn
the dogs out at dark,and listen to um run FOX till daylite,whenever the
barkin got sparse or to far away,GDad,d take out his fox horns and callum
ta turn the fox, or we,d jump into tha pickups and try ta find a way to get
closer to where they were runnin---gray fox had a habit of runin in
circles,but if they jumped a red or Silver, they might head down a railroad
track and wind up 50 miles away by daylite-----Dad told me many many huntin
stories of them huntin before I was born,it went way on back thru the family
to tha 1800s and beyond---Dad had a dog he bought from Ariz.,was part
wolf,they would have challeges to see who had the fastest dog,big time
hunters would bring dog packs from the upstate ,even from mtns a NC,to
run,and bet on their dogs,daddys wolf dog was so fast that you could hear him
tongunin way up ahead a all the pack dogs,the upstaters warned daddy to not
let his wolfdog,ruin their BIG dollar dogs,but he did,their dogs ran
themselfs into the ground tryin ta keep up-----a couple of um died
even----daddy sold our wolfdog,(I wish I could remember his name now'''')but
its been nearly 50yrs ago now---to one the upstaters,he came back down bout a
year later,to run fox w/ us---daddy asked him where the wolfdog was,he said
he had ta shoot him---couldn,t find any dogs that,d run w/ him,lost a couple
more tryin-----

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