42 FOX HUNTING. 



return to Crum creek, with the eager hounds in 

 close pursuit and the riders following, keeping the 

 hounds in view, and thus we came back to the 

 Wallingford mill dam, which the fox, close 

 pressed, swam over, followed by the hounds. It 

 looked so much like a sure kill that Jack Smith, in 

 his excitement, pushed his horse into the dam up 

 to his saddle girths, intending to swim across after 

 the hounds, and it took very vigorous commands 

 to him from George Powell before he could be 

 induced to come back and ride with us to the 

 Howard Lewis' ford to cross the Crum. The fox 

 was holed on Jacob Hibberd's farm with the 

 hounds snapping at him as he went to earth. The 

 other riders, J. Howard Lewis, Edward Lewis, 

 James G. Stacey, and Eli D. Pierce Jr., had holed 

 their fox in the Turn hole after a hard run up and 

 down the creek, and, hearing our hounds, they 

 rode to meet us; and it being then long passed 

 the noon hour we gladly adjourned to Mr. Lewis' 

 house for our Christmas turkey dinner and to talk 

 over the sport of the day, and laugh over the 

 funny incidents, how this one got tumbled from 

 his horse, and that one got tangled in a fence, 

 and another got knocked out from the chase, etc., 

 etc. 



The writer was riding at the time a little 

 brown, well-bred Maryland mare, that had been 



