34 FOX HUNTING. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PLACES WELL KNOWN TO HUNTERS. 



The well-known places for starting or holing 

 foxes were : Hunting Hill, the Chestnut Sprouts, 

 afterwards known as Chestnut Woods, Charles 

 Johnson's woods, the Cedar Barrens, Castle 

 Rocks, the Snake House Woods (which took its 

 name from a deserted house where large quan- 

 tities of snakes were found), the old Saw Mill 

 woods on Crum creek, Lobb's woods, Trout 

 Run, Paxson's Hollow, Powel's Rocks, Bare Hill, 

 Tyler's woods, Miller's woods. Poplar Hill, 

 Painter's woods, Smedley's Barrens, a large tract 

 of woodland; the Turn Hole on Crum creek be- 

 low Holland's bridge, Fell's Hills, Gibbon's Hills. 

 Maris' woods on Darby creek. Long Point on 

 Ridley creek, and the Greenbriers, below the 

 Black Horse hotel. The most famous places for 

 the holing of foxes were Castle Rocks, Powel's 

 Rocks, and the Turn Hole; in either place the fox 

 was safe from bag hunters, as they could not be 

 dug out owing to the rocky nature of the ground. 

 In open soil, such as used for ground hog holes, a 

 few hours' digging would unearth a fox, and a 

 forked stick with a string across it for the fox to 

 snap on, so that it could be twisted by a turn 

 around his nose and jaw, made it easy to drag him 

 from the end of the hole. 



