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encouraging them with his voice and urging them 

 on if they have shown disposition to quit, and he 

 should be on hand for the run to encourage the 

 hounds if an out is made, and see that they make 

 the proper casts or circling, for the fox may 

 knock them out by doubling on his tracks, or by 

 running a fence, or through a stream of water, or 

 by some other wily trick that an old red fox 

 knows only too well how to adopt. In those days 

 no hunting horns to call the hounds were deemed 

 necessary, for a hunter who could not ring his 

 voice over the hills and valleys on a frosty morn- 

 ing to the hounds far away, in the true hunting 

 cry, was not considered much of a fox hunter. 

 Mr. Mark Pennell, who had a clear, strong, far- 

 reaching voice, has given his experience how far 

 the hunting cry can be heard, and he tells of a 

 certain cold, still, frosty morning how he went to 

 the barn on his farm in Aston and after cleaning 

 and feeding his hunting horse preparatory to a 

 mount for a hunt, he walked to the top of a hill on 

 his farm and gave his calls to get in a favorite 

 hound named "Tyler," owned by Nicholas Fair- 

 lamb, whose farmhouse was on the Middlelown 

 road below the old Presbyterian church, estimated 

 to be between four and five miles across country 

 from Mr. Pennell's. After calling several times, 

 Mr. Pennell went to his house for breakfast, and 



