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"What is a man, 



If his chief good and market of his time 



Be but to sleep and feed?" 



It was no difficult matter, to discern who had chased 

 the Fox. There could be no mistake, the keen appetite, 

 the roseate bloom of health, and the cheerful countenance, 

 sufficed to mark well the hunter. 



As the Poet expresses it, 



<' I love to see a nimble activeness 

 In noble youth j it argues active minds 

 In well shap'd bodies, and begets a joy 

 Dancing within me." 



Of the respectable and flourishing club at this epoch, 

 or at a still later period we hope to be pardoned for intro- 

 ducing in this place a few of its most enterprising and 

 leading members or hunting associates, viz. 



Mr. Morris, President, and Messrs. Wharton, C. Ross, 

 J. S. Lewis, Morrell, Clay, Davies, Price, Denman, R. 

 M. Lewis, W. W. Fisher, Humphrey's, Harrison, S. 

 Meeker, R. Irwin, S. Allen, J. and A. Hamilton, R. 

 Davis, B. Tilghman, A. Stocker, J. Caldwell, W. Mil- 

 nor, Jr- T. F. Gamble, J. R. Tunis, J. C. Smith, Wm. 

 Smith, J. Cuthbert, J. Wheeler, W. R. Stockton, J. 

 Jackson, J. Wistar and Solomon Park a veteran of seventy 

 an intrepid horseman, all residents of the city; of New 



