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the results of his many years of sport, but never again 

 will we have a Frank Forester who, following the bent of 

 many an Englishman, devoted a master mind to the de- 

 tails of sport and who by cultured words and sparkling 

 phrases showed the picture of those grand days on the 

 hills of Orange County. 



Running back to the village at noon we met Mr. F. V. 

 Sanford and with Mr. G. F. Ketchum visited the "Shingle 

 House"; built in 1764, and on the right side of the road 

 we stopped, as Forester did when he drove up on the first 

 day to Tom Draw's tavern. The house has been purchased 

 by the Historical Society of the town of Warwick which, 

 in its Historical Papers,- published in 1914, gave a descrip- 

 tion of the Society's Seal, 



"In the foreground is seen the familiar 

 Wawayanda Creek spanned by the old stone 

 bridge. In the background is seen the familiar 

 sky line of Mount Adam and Mount Eve; en- 

 circling the seal is a representation of the great 

 West Point Chain, forged at Sterling furnace in 

 the eastern part of the township during the Revo- 

 lutionary War, and was the chain that never 

 broke." 



A chapter could be written about the Shingle House and 

 the interesting relics of by-gone days gathered by 

 the many members of the Society, and to enrich the 

 li)>rary Mr. Pond has presented the following books by 

 Frank Forester: "Sporting Scenes and Characters, Fish 

 and Fishing, Life and Writings, Fugitive Sporting 

 Sketches, Wager of Battle, Henry the VII Ith and His Six 

 Wives, Captains of the Old World, The Fair Puritan, 

 The Magnolia, &n^ Wildwood's Magazine, i\.nd. when I was 

 asked to write in the Visitors' Book I penned the 

 following : 



■ "Mr. Pond has been for years a Forester lover, 

 and has one of the best collections of his writings 

 known. Mr. Pond has written for Forest & 

 Stream, American Field,- Turf Field and Farm, ' 

 and has been an editor of the Sportsmen's Review 

 eighteen years; and is now editor of the America/i^ ■ 

 Angler. He wrote the Memoirs of Herbert and 



