FOX HUNTING. 35 



OLD CASTLE ROCKS. 



Castle Rocks deserve more than a passing 

 notice, for besides being so well known to fox 

 hunters of Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery 

 Counties, it has a well authenticated legend at- 

 tached that made it celebrated from the time of 

 the Revolutionary War. The country surround- 

 ing it was then a densely wooded country, and its 

 location was near the old King's highway, which 

 is now known as the West Chester and Philadel- 

 phia turnpike road, along which the trolley road 

 is constructed, and the old rocks and remain- 

 ing wood are now used for picnic grounds and 

 for the annual reunion and love feasts of the 

 people of those three mentioned counties, where 

 they can gossip, talk crops, politics, or any other 

 rural topics, and can be served with beef from a 

 whole roasted ox, ride on the merry-go-round, or 

 be entertained by plantation songs and dances, as 

 well as witty speeches and otherwise. But during 

 the hunting season the winter winds, frosts, and 

 snows put an end to these modern encroachments 

 on the solemn and silent solitude of the old 

 rocks, and the fox and the hunters still have them 

 as of yore; the fox often passing over or near 

 them in his run to see that they still remain safe 

 for him to go to earth in, when too hard driven; 

 or if he is already tired, he quietly slips into one 



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