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consisted of a selected pack of twenty-two 

 hounds, whose names were: "Mingo,'" "Piper," 

 "Drummer," "Sweetlys," "Rover," "Countess," 

 " Dido," " Slouch," " Ringwood," " Tippler," 

 "Driver," "Tuneall," "Bumper," "Juno," "Dutch- 

 ess," "Venus," "Sugnell," "Davy," "Toper," 

 " Bowler," and " Bellman," besides ten six- 

 months-old pups. This old club survived until 

 1818, and existed for fifty-tv/o years. Often dur- 

 ing the hunting season when the ice was not 

 strong enough to admit of crossing on it by horse- 

 back, the Philadelphia members would ride to 

 Trenton, cross the bridge there, and thence down 

 on the Jersey side rather than miss the arranged 

 chase. The chase generally lasted only a few 

 hours, but once, in 1798, the fox carried the pack 

 in full cry to Salem; and it was a point of honor 

 never to give up until the fox was killed or 

 holed. 



General Robert Wharton, a former Mayor of 

 Philadelphia, was a member of the club. The 

 Thomas Leiper mentioned was the father of the 

 late George G. Leiper and Samuel M. Leiper, of 

 Delaware County, and a great-grandfather of the 

 present George G. Leiper, a noted fox hunter 

 and keeper of hounds, of this county up to a 

 recent date; so that his love of the sport came 

 naturally to him from his ancestor. While the 



