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jovial occasions, and many daring and reckless 

 feats in horsemanship were exhibited, which are 

 still talked over among the members of the club 

 at their reunions. 



Several of the members of the Elk Ridge Fox 

 Hunting Club, of jMaryland, near Baltimore, 

 among them being William Frick, Fred Schriver, 

 Edw. Murray, and a Mr. Jackson, visited the Rose 

 Tree Club for a week of hunting in 1879, bringing 

 their well-bred horses with them. They unques- 

 tionably were good and bold riders, and the spot 

 is still pointed out where one of them rode his 

 horse, with a broken saddle girth, in a hunt, up a 

 sharp, steep hill and over a good, stiff fence at the 

 top, and that he kept his seat firmly throughout 

 was a wonder. 



The Rose Tree men made a return visit the 

 following winter to the Elk Ridge Club, taking 

 their own horses, and among them were Moncure 

 Robinson Jr., Dr. Rush S. Huidekoper, George 

 ]M. Lewis, W. H. Corlies, and C. H. Townsend, 

 and a jolly time they had of it. It was on this trip 

 that "Pandora" and Robinson's horse had a race 

 on the turnpike one moonlight night, and, coming 

 unexpectedly to a toll gate, the riders found the 

 gate closed by a bar across the roadway. It was 

 too late to check the horses, and "Pandora" rose 

 for the leap too close to the bar, which she struck 



