26 FOX HUNTING. 



employed to bring back stray hounds, and he was 

 a good and bold rider. The other members of 

 the club were Pratt Bishop, Thomas Bishop, 

 Wash. Bishop, Edward Howard, Edward Lewis, 

 Edward E. Worrall, James G. Stacey, Gideon 

 MaHn, and John J. Rowland, for up to 1873 it 

 had almost exclusively a Delaware County mem- 

 bership, Fairman Rogers and J. Edward Farnum, 

 who joined before that date, both having resi- 

 dences in the county. 



The pack was made up of the hounds of Mr. 

 Lewis and Mr. Darlington, and hounds furnished 

 by the Bishops and by J. Morgan Baker, who put 

 in a good red bitch named "May," making up 

 about fifteen of as good and true hounds as ever 

 ran a fox. These hounds were kenneled during 

 the hunting season in an out-building attached to 

 the old tavern barn. 



Many a hard ride the members had together, 

 starting for the find, as they did, before sunrise 

 in the morning, working up the fox from the 

 meadow or low ground where he had been 

 mousing before daylight; sometimes dragging for 

 miles before jumping him from his lair on the 

 warm side of a wooded hill, where he was lying 

 curled in his bed of leaves; then ofT on a hard run 

 until the fox was holed or killed, which not infre- 

 quently was long after the noon hour; or if holed 



