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half couples of dogs and seven and one half of bitches. 

 Hounds picked up a cold line in the Boyer Davis meadow, 

 working it very, very slowly into Harry Disston's swamp, 

 where Will Leverton, huntsman, went into the swamp on 

 foot, and, while he was off his horse, some one viewed our 

 fox out the north end. Hounds, owning it at once and 

 carrying it with beautiful voice into the lower end of the 

 Barrens, checked a moment, when three foxes went out 

 of covert in different directions, but a backward cast set 

 them on the hunted fox, and, coming back to Disston's, 

 went through the covert, keeping Mr. Alex. Coxe's on 

 their right, fairly flew out to the State Road; crossing at 

 the schoolhouse, they ran to the wood surrounding the 

 Coxe house, where a farmhand viewed our fox going down 

 the drive. Hounds checked a moment, but Will Leverton 

 put them right immediately, and, crossing a bit of nice 

 grass, took us over the State Road again and incidentally 

 over four or five nice worm fences, one right after the other, 

 until we came to the Barrens again. But Reynard was too 

 hard-pressed to tarry there, so, racing out the upper end, 

 hounds bore right-handed through the Rush Hospital on 

 across the road, and, running with a breast-high scent, it 

 looked as if we were going to Hershey's Mill; but hounds 

 pulled their fox down in the wood on top of the hill, just 

 after crossing the Pike, in an hour and thirty-five minutes 

 of very brilliant work. Ben Chew was congratulated by 

 every one, and he certainly deserved it. 



Among those out, besides the Master, were: Bob and 

 Mrs. Strawbridge; Mrs. Snowden, going in great style on 

 ** Able"; Miss Cassatt and Miss Eugenia Cassatt; Paul and 

 Mrs. Mills; Charlie Munn; Monroe Robinson, who said 

 it was the best run he had ever seen; Lowber and Walter 

 Stokes; Frank Lloyd on "Sherry"; Dave Sharp on a 



