/O FOX HUxNTING. 



"who COiMPOSED THE HUNT. 



"And who was gathered there of that frosty 

 morning crowd? Why, there is Howard Lewis, 

 who was and still is — and always will be — one of 

 the most active of the Rose Tree Hunt — he whom 

 'age doth not wither nor custom stale' in the ten- 

 acity with which he presides at Rose Tree suppers, 

 nor in his love for the chase, and who was the 

 first President of the club under its early and in- 

 complete organization. A hereditary fox hunter, 

 he — lover of horse and dog, and patron of the 

 chase. There also in the mount I see the youthful 

 Ned Farnham — now, alas ! gone to the happy 

 hunting grounds — no less a sturdy lover of a 

 cross-country dash than Lewis, full of ardor for the 

 scamper when the fox is heard away. Mr. Farn- 

 ham was until his death a staunch friend and sup- 

 porter of the club. Of the old organizers and 

 hunters were Tom Bishop, Wash and Pratt Bishop, 

 Morg. Baker, George Darlington, Reece and Ned 

 Lewis, Ned Worrall, and Ed. Howard. Many, 

 alas! are gone, but they were stalwart boys in 

 their days, and 'the devil take the hindmost' was 

 their cry as the hunt oft trended in its wild and 

 fierce glee toward the divide of Ridley and Crum 

 creeks and down into the nooks and valleys be- 

 yond. Poor Reynard's chances were few when 

 this hunt gathered and the hounds were in full 



