88 FOX HUNTING. 



At five o'clock the meeting broke up, and the 

 visitors came riding into town, spattered with 

 mud as they were. There is no question that, fol- 

 lowed in the manner it is, fox hunting is a 

 splendid exercise, and calculated to make splendid 

 riders. As to its safety, there is very seldom any 

 accident. There are numbers of ladies who enter 

 into it with zest, as many as half a dozen riding in 

 a single hunt. This last hunt is about the last of 

 the season. In a week or two the ground will be 

 broken for the growing crops, and the horses will 

 be patiently at work, dreaming, perhaps, of the 

 next season. 



"Nearly every gentleman residing in German- 

 town, who possesses a horse or who takes pride in 

 horses, is in greater or less degree identified, if 

 not directly, with this association. Prominent 

 among the usual participants are George Wistar, 

 Esq., Henry Miller, George Biddle, Clement Bid- 

 die, Charles Newhall, A. J. Cassatt, Daniel New- 

 hall, John Welsh, Mr. Carpenter, Joseph M. Rosen- 

 garten, Wm. Rotch Wistar, and Mr. Johnson. 



"There are several of these hunting clubs in 

 Delaware County. Among the names of the 

 members of the clubs are some of the most sub- 

 stantial men of the county, such as Messrs. 

 Howard Lewis, Samuel Lewis, George W. Hill, 

 Edward Worth, George Lewis, Samuel Miller, 



