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coming out immediately after this meal was over, 

 he found "Tyler" waiting and ready for him. He 

 learned after, that the hound was in the kitchen of 

 his master's house, and Mr. Fairlamb, hearing him 

 howling to get out, got up and opened the door, 

 and away went the hound. Some neighbors of 

 Mr. Pennell, living between his house and the 

 Fairlamb house, heard Mr. Pennell calling up the 

 hound and soon after heard and saw *'Tyler" run- 

 ning fast for Mr. Pennell's house. 



Mr. Pennell also says that on another occasion 

 he had run a fox to the Brandywine and earthed 

 him near the Baptist church, and after holing he 

 called to let the other hunters know the fox was 

 holed; some men who were near the Willcox 

 Catholic church in Aston, and knew Mr. Pennell's 

 voice, heard that call; this distance is over three 

 miles. 



Those were the days when the sport was 

 truly hunting, and not steeple chasing with 

 hounds across country. The hunting horses were 

 not as good then as now, for they were not 

 blooded stock; but the hunter knew how to save 

 his horse's wind and strength by never forcing a 

 jump when unnecessary, and by taking some of 

 the work on himself in the climbing of steep hills 

 afoot, leading his horse to the top. 



