24 FOX HUNTING. 



hunters. Such trimming might not mar the 

 beauty of the short-eared EngHsh hounds now so 

 popular with some hunting men. Jackson Baker, 

 Davis Broomall, William Green, G. Leiper Green, 

 Robert Sill, J. Davis Roney, R. David Johnson, 

 Sherwood Baker, and James Pinkerton hunted a 

 pack of hounds from the Howellville tavern (now 

 Gradyville), in Edgmont township, kept by Robert 

 Sill, from about 1866; and when Davis Broomall 

 became landlord of the William Penn tavern, in 

 187 1, this pack was hunted from that tavern 

 house. James Neeld, of Concord, also had an ex- 

 cellent pack and was a keen sportsman. 



The hounds of all these packs were of the 

 best for a cold drag, a hot scent, and a long run, 

 and, as many of the packs hunted over the same 

 country, it was not an unusual thing to have them 

 get together on the same fox, and the hunter 

 would find himself following from forty to sixty 

 well-bred hounds in full cry, making music that 

 delighted the heart and stirred the blood to 

 daring deeds of horsemanship. 



Mr. Lewis and Mr. Darlington had their own 

 pack of eight or ten hounds, and they packed and 

 hunted together until the Rose Tree Club was 

 formed; their hounds for the first years, and to 

 1859, being packed at Mr. Lewis' mill property in 

 Nether Providence. The names of some of the 



