86 FOX HUN1ING. 



ing over the rough, rocky ground covered with 

 underbrush, and some dashing recklessly through 

 the bushes and across the creek that flowed 

 through the low bottom land, and then the whole 

 passed from view over the brow of the hill. What 

 followed is told by the hunters on the return, 

 which was about noon, the hunt having lasted 

 three-quarters of an hour. 'It was a short and 

 sharp one,' says the Secretary of the Rose Tree 

 Club, as he came in. 



"The first indication was the straying in of a 

 solitary hunter with horse and self well splashed, 

 then a limping hound, and then the hounds and 

 the hunters them.selves. The latter were well 

 splashed from toe to hat, and seemed to pride 

 themselves upon the amount of real estate in a 

 semi-liquid state that each could carry. The ladies 

 came in bearing the usual evidence of hard and 

 reckless riding, and soon there was a perfect babble 

 of the result. The fox had led them a chase of 

 some six miles around and about, and when run 

 down by the hounds the first ones in at the death 

 were Mr. Ed. Worth, Mr. William Leiper, Mr. 

 George Lewis, Miss M., and, within half a minute, 

 Mrs. W. As the young lady was in almost the 

 first, it was decided to give her the brush, or 

 tail, of the fox, that being the greatest trophy of 

 the hunt. Each of the ladies had a foot, and the 



