82 FOX HUNTING. 



Inauguration day (March 5th), there were in the 

 meet nearly 100 hunters and 133 hounds. 



"Wishing to get an insight into the manner of 

 conducting a hunt, our reporter took a trip to 

 Delaware County to the 'meet' of the Germantown 

 and the Rose Tree clubs at the stables of Mr. 

 Howard Lewis, in Springfield township, Delaware 

 County, and about three miles east of Media. The 

 road from the latter place winds through a rolling 

 and most picturesque country. At times the road 

 winds along the hillsides, while scores of feet be- 

 low we can see the low flats and the creek flowmg. 

 The whole face of the country seems as if it were 

 formed by a series of upheavals, the rocks out- 

 cropping here and there on the hillsides, and some 

 of the latter well covered with thickets and scrub 

 growth and brush. The place where the 'meet' 

 was held was one of the most commanding of all 

 the country, and an observer could see for several 

 miles about, except at one point where a ridge of 

 almost equal height was covered from base to sum- 

 mit with small growth. There were assembled 

 about thirty-five hunters who intended to take part 

 in the chase, including two ladies, Mrs. S. W.. 

 from Germantown, and Miss IM., of the Rose Tree 

 Club. Even to one who took no pleasure in the 

 hunt it was a pleasant sight to see the horses 

 grouped around, some of them very handsome 



