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owned and hunted by Mark B. Hannum, and she 

 was gritty and high-strung and ready to jump at 

 anything in her way, but she was so quick and 

 eager, one had to sit her with watchful care 

 to keep in the saddle. She was also a good 

 road trotter in harness. Some time after this 

 she escaped from the field she was in, and 

 although she had been from Maryland for five 

 or six years, she started back for her old home, 

 and, getting on the Delaware railroad below 

 Wilmington, a train chased her for a mile, she 

 running at full speed, until, seeing other horses 

 in a field, she leaped the fence and galloped out 

 among them. This run and fright, however, split 

 her wind, and from that on she was a wheezer. 



J. HOWARD lewis' DEN, AND THE OTHER PLACES 

 WHERE HUNTERS WERE MADE WELCOME. 



When J. Howard Lewis built his handsome 

 new stone stable on his mill property, he con- 

 structed a cozy office and den room in it, which 

 was heated in winter by a Httle wood stove that 

 could soon be made comfortably hot; back of the 

 stable was a porch that this room opened out on, 

 and in summer this was a most comfortable loung- 

 ing place, with an attractive view of a bend in Crum 

 creek, with meadow and wooded hillside. The 

 room was furnished with old-fashioned furniture, 



