Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1912 — Really Had Best of It. [ARTICLE]

Really Had Best of It.

John Burroughs Is well known as one df the foremost of nature writers In this country. Some time ago he visited his brother, Eden Burroughs, who lives inythe Catskills, at a place called Hobart. The two brothers went fox hunting together. The honor of the hunt came to Eden, who shot the only fox. It so happened that foxskins were worth five dollars at that time, and-fhi successful Nimrod took much pride in telling how he got the better of the sage of Slabsides. Later, in boasting to a few friends about it In the presence of his brother, John, he was interrupted by, “You have bragged about that fox hunt long enough. You shot the fox, sold the skin and got five dollars. I wrote a little account of the hunt, and got $75 from the magazine which published it. So there you are!”