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22 FOX HUNTING. 



CHAPTER V. 



HUNTING THAT LED TO THE FORMATION OF 

 THE ROSE TREE CLUB. 



The author commenced his fox hunting with 

 Mr. J. Howard Lewis in the winter of 1852-53, 

 and they were two of the originators of the Rose 

 Tree Club. At that time among the old noted 

 hunters who packed fox hounds in this county 

 were Jim Burns and Ned Engle, of Chester, and 

 they had been hunting for years in Tinicum and 

 up the Ridley creek country, and with them, in 

 r the fifties, hunted Jake Stewart; these men then 

 hunting on foot; Burns and Engle at that time 

 considering themselves too old to ride. Then 

 there was John Mahoney, of Rockdale, who had 

 a noted pack of hounds and was an old and gritty 

 rider, although it is said that John commenced 

 his hunting on foot with Mark Pennell and 

 George W. Hill, who furnished him with his first 

 I hounds. George Powell, of Springfield, was an 



\ old and good liuntefj-vvitn his well-known blue- 



\ speckled pack, and his hunting companion. Jack 



Smith. Jones and Hunter Moore, of Haverford, 

 had packed hounds from 1845, "^"^^ o"^y g^ve it 

 up about three years ago, both good riders and 

 hunters, and always with a pack that could not be 

 excelled; and with them hunted Dan Abrahams, 



