Then on to studying. How many of you can recite the pony club pledge right now? Or tell me what is the job of the whipper in? The Quiz team can! The Quiz team is practicing hard. They have had 2 study sessions so far but practice a lot.
The Fox hunt was the best thing there by far! We all got name tags with what we were to be on it. I was the fox. We had 3 hounds. 2 were people from the quiz team and the other one was Mathew's own basset hound (a little short but technically still a hound!).We started as soon as we could. There was a lot of land to run on. I'll tell you the fox's story because I was trying to get away from the rest of the people and don't really know what happened to them. You'll just have to imagine their story but every now and then I would have an accidental run in with them. And now, the fox's story:
It was a dark and stormy night.....(Just kidding! It was quite warm actually. let's start over..)
Bounding through the grass. The fox leaps over logs and creeps under trees. Still in plain sight it must rely on speed to escape it's determined pursuers. The three hounds, two of which are balancing on two feet, are close behind the fox. Making a quick turn into a narrower, winding path it is losing the hounds. It leaps and bounds stumbling a few times on stick or rocks. It runs down a hill and then takes cover behind a big log. As the fox catches it's breath it hears first the hounds. the the huntsmen run past it. After the sound of foot steps passes it runs the back the way it came. One of the hounds spots it and charges after. The fox, realizing what is happening, takes a running start and leaps over a creek. The hounds stops on the other side and the fox takes off. It runs on a narrow path now and passes what appears to be junk yard. Stopping briefly to admire what appears to be the remains of a golf cart it continues down the path. It runs straight into a barbed wire fence. The fox continues down the fence and ends up it a dark forest like place. Struggling through thorn bushes it spots a snake under a log. Without thinking of where it is going the fox takes off, going as fast as it can through the thorn bushes. Finally it is out of the thorn bushes and faces a new obstacle. A steep rock cliff. It has two choices: Try and go up the cliff, or go back through the thorn bushes to the snake. The fox climbs up the cliff. It was going pretty well until halfway up the fox looses footing. Neither able to go up or down it is stuck. Only then does it notice the mournfull eyes staring through the bushes at the top of the cliff. The basset hound, third member of the hounds and therefore not a good sign. "Shh" says the fox. "I'm not here. go back" But the dog stays. "What's he looking at?" The fox hears voices. The other two hounds show up. "There she is! I found the fox!" The fox was surrounded in less than 10 seconds. The hunt was over.
Pretty thrilling story huh? They should make a movie out of it! Anyway, that was the mock foxhunt!
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