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Title: Fox hunting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and origin and history of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Darlington, George E. (George Eyre), 1832- Fairman Rogers Collection (University of Pennsylvania) PU
Subjects: Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club Fox hunting Hunting CHR 1901 PRO Pearson, Leonard (autograph) (bookplate) (donor) (Fairman Rogers copy)
Publisher: Philadelphia : Franklin Printing
Contributing Library: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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84 FOX HUNTING.

town, and sent to the Rose Tree a couple of
months ago, and he was thought to be rather
tame, so much so that one of the ladies incautiously
put her fingers inside and he did not offer to
bite it.

" At about half past ten o'clock in the morn-
ing the last straggler had come into the 'meet,'
and a few minutes before eleven o'clock the fox
was taken out in his box and carried to a good
distance and to such a position that none of the
company could tell where it was taken to.

" Their appearance, dressed in their hunting
costume, is exceedingly suggestive. Some wore
short jackets, ordinary trousers tucked into their
riding boots, and carrying riding sticks with a loop
at the end, and all kinds of hats from the silk to
the little jockey skull cap. One old hunter tucked
up the tails of his coat and made a jacket of it,
another came out in a white flannel jacket, and
still another wore a costume somewhat like a
London 'old clo' man, one short overcoat with
another shorter one over it, and white corduroy
trousers were plenty. One of the ladies, Miss M.,
was dressed in a blue water-proof riding habit,
rather long, and the other. Mrs. W., in a short,
well-fitting one of black, and both wore regular
jockey caps.
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ROSE TREE CLUB RACES. SCENE ON TRACK GROUNDS.
See page 54.

FOX HUNTING. 85

"THE HUNT.

" 'Give him a start of fifteen minutes,' says
the master of the hunt. It was an impatient
time, and was spent in talking probabilities,
'horse,' and looking after the straps and saddles.
'Time's up! mount! mount!' and in less than a
minute all were in the saddle, the pack of hounds
slipped and dashing up the road with tails erect
and nose in air, and such a chorus of hoarse
baying and sharp yelps that must have tingled the
ears of the fox if he heard it. In a half minute
almost the whole party had separated, some going
one direction, some another, depending on judg-
ment as to the direction to be taken. The 'wind's
from the south, and it will be a short hunt,' says
a looker-on, 'for then it's always so.' The hounds
could be heard for a few minutes, and then the
sound was lost behind the hills. The two ladies
rode splendidly and followed the hounds, taking
fences, ditches, and everything with the nerve of
veterans. From the brow of the hill where the
spectators stood the fox was easily seen from the
time it was let out of the trap until the first
quarter of a mile had been run. As the hounds
struck this point there was a temporary hush; then
a deep chorus, and they rushed in a solid body
along the trail. In less than half a minute the
horsemen and the two ladies could be seen follow-

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