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pilot at a low three rails. Then, just before reaching the 

 Square, hounds swung sharply right-handed, and, crossing 

 the road, ran through Vauclain's back to the lower side of 

 Snakehouse, to a short check; this first burst having been 

 twenty-eight minutes. Will Leverton made quite a wide 

 cast; hounds picked up the line, and, carrying it to the hills 

 above the creek, we were surprised to see the Rose Tree 

 pack coming towards us in full cry; but, about two hun- 

 dred yards to our right, or south of us. 



The two packs passed each other, both in full cry, and 

 neither pack hesitated an instant, nor did any of their re- 

 spective following. Rose Tree hounds swung left-handed 

 towards the Providence Road, crossing through the old 

 Harrison Farm; while the Radnor bore right-handed to 

 the Line Road, where they checked, finally harking to the 

 Rose Tree in Evans's Rocks, and from then on over the 

 Line Road the combined packs ran with a wonderful 

 cry down Crum Creek to Dr. Jim Hutchinson's prop- 

 erty, where the Rose Tree hounds, sort of half-heartedly, 

 marked a fox to ground; but evidently Will Leverton did n't 

 think Reynard had gone under, and, in making another 

 wide cast, hounds spoke and carried it on out to the lower 

 road, over the hill above the new Springfield reservoir, 

 where scent became quite spotty and hounds with great 

 difficulty worked along to near the Lamb Tavern, where 

 they gave it up. 



Of course the question immediately arose as to whose 

 fox it was that the combined packs finally brought down- 

 country; but after all is said and done — and even some of 

 the Rose Tree people agree with us — there is no doubt but 

 that the Radnor's hunted fox was quite a distance ahead of 

 hounds. The Rose Tree, in drawing up-country, ran into 

 our fox, turned him back, and here it was that the two 



