FOX HUNTING. lOI 



Hunt Club house, where the members meet for 

 pleasure and business thirteen times a year, wnen- 

 ever there is a full moon. An elegant supper is 

 served in the 'best room' of the inn, after whicli 

 an hour is devoted to business and the rest of the 

 evening to conviviality and good fellowship, with 

 a moonlight drive for all at the close. The mem- 

 bers are either country gentlemen of old Quaker 

 blood from Delaware or Chester Counties, or rich 

 Philadelphians who love hunting, own good horses, 

 and are not afraid to ride them. Across the road 

 from the Rose Tree are long ranges of kennels, 

 and beyond these the race course and grand stand. 

 Every autumn a Rose Tree Hunt race meeting at- 

 tracts the beauty and fashion of Philadelphia to 

 witness farmers' races, flat races for members' 

 horses, and steeple chases, with club members 'up.' 

 over two and a half miles of a stifif country studded 

 with eighteen jumps. These include several stone 

 walls and some particularly nasty post and rail 

 fences. 



"One of the thirteen full moon suppers came 

 ofif a few days ago, and your correspondent joined 

 a party from Philadelphia to go out to it. Media 

 is twenty-two miles from here; a forty-minute trip 

 by rail. The country is lovely. On both sides of 

 the line are lovely country houses, owned by 

 people, many of them whose names have made a 



