Lucy, the “Beaner”, part beagle and part wiener dog, violated a cardinal rule of rabbit dogs…..don’t miss your ride home.

Now why Brag’s puppy would want to misbehave like that I don’t have a clue. I know that my dogs never run nothing but a rabbit. They’re the best rabbit dogs in these parts. Why everybody says so.
But Brag’s……
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But the last we heard was her burning up a deer’s trail with Lady in tow. Lady came back a hour or so later. Lucy, as I write this, is still missing.

Lucy has not yet had the collar used on her and today was merely a continuation of not using it on her. Brag seems to be of the opinion that I somehow bear partial responsibility for his puppy running a deer and getting lost. While it is true that I left the “clicker” for the electric pine limb with it's eight levels of "stimulation" on the flower box, it is sort of his fault because he required help loading the dogs requiring me to set it down in the first place. No word on this New Year’s Day. I’ve notified G.F.’s brother who lives off the main road she was headed for. The deer hunters celebrated New Years Eve at the camp, so if she turns up there or at the carry box we left where we turned her out, they’ll give me a call. I might ride down after Church services this morning to see if I see her.

Oh, and by the way, we didn't have a single race. The "new property was beautiful...for developers or turkeys or early season deer or...but not a single briar patch for the rabbits. Heck, we couldn't even get a race going at Seale.
Sigh!