FOX HUNTING. Ill 



ing in fox hunting' under the skilled tuition of that 

 now venerable and highly respected old fox hunter, 

 Mr. Mark Pennell, who also gave his first lessons 

 to John Mahoney. Some years later Mr. Hill 

 went to live on a farm in Middletown township, 

 and there continued his hunting experience up 

 to the time he came to Media to live. He 

 hunted actively with the Rose Tree Club hounds 

 up to about two years before his death, when a fall 

 of his horse in the hunting field disabled him; but 

 he afterwards resumed riding in the winter of 1898- 

 99, and still rode some little the winter before his 

 death, although much shattered in health, and 

 still kept up an active interest in the club affairs. 

 His reputation as a Master of Hounds of one of 

 the oldest and best hunting clubs in the country 

 was widely known, and he was highly esteemed 

 and respected by all who knew him. 



EXPERIMENT WITH ENGLISH HOUNDS. 



In the early days of the organized club, after 

 J. Edward Farnum became a member, he im- 

 ported from England some of the best English fox 

 hounds that could be obtained, and put them into 

 the Rose Tree pack, being of opinion, after seeing 

 the running of English hounds in their own 

 country, that our American hounds could be im- 

 proved by this cross strain of blood. But a few 



