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brothers, the hounds running over the hihs on his 

 father's farm, in Middletown township early one 

 morning, that Charley Pennell came riding to 

 them on a good young horse that had never 

 hunted before, and which he put at a low worm 

 or stake and rider fence, and that the horse re- 

 fused to take it. At Mr. Pennell's request, the 

 boys cut a stout stick for him, and with this per- 

 suader he drove his horse at the fence again and 

 he went blundering over it after the hounds. 

 Some hours after this, the boys, hearing the 

 hounds returning, ran to the hills and met them 

 in full cry, with Mr. Pennell close after, his horse 

 taking every fence in the way in flying leaps. It 

 was under such an instructor that Mr. Mark Pen- 

 nell got his early experience in fox hunting from 

 the age of fourteen years. He kept from eight 

 to ten hounds at his farm home in Aston town- 

 ship, which he went to in 1835, and hunted them 

 for many years; and as several of his farmer 

 neighbors kept a few hounds also, when he 

 wanted a hunt his ringing fox-hunting call would 

 bring the neighbors' hounds to him. His prac- 

 ticed ear taught him to know the cry of the differ- 

 ent hounds he hunted with, so that it was easy for 

 him to also know how and where they were run- 

 ning and which ones were on the lead. 



Few farmers objected to hunting over their 



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