Fox hunting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania : and, origin and history of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club . in Thomas I. Leiper and Gen-eral Charles I. Leiper, were distinguished andbrave officers in the war of the Rebellion, GeneralLeiper serving in the United States VolunteerCavalry under Sheridan. THE FOX HOUND. From the information we get of the huntingof foxes, the English and French hounds of thatearly day were the long-eared, keen-scented, loud-voiced hound, which is now known as theAmerican hound, and which has been used inthis country from its earlier history, and wereused in England a
Fox hunting in Delaware County, Pennsylvania : and, origin and history of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club . in Thomas I. Leiper and Gen-eral Charles I. Leiper, were distinguished andbrave officers in the war of the Rebellion, GeneralLeiper serving in the United States VolunteerCavalry under Sheridan. THE FOX HOUND. From the information we get of the huntingof foxes, the English and French hounds of thatearly day were the long-eared, keen-scented, loud-voiced hound, which is now known as theAmerican hound, and which has been used inthis country from its earlier history, and wereused in England and France as long as foxhunting (that is, following the fox by scent) wasthe true sport; but as the stock of horses forcross-country steeple chasing was improved, andthey wanted faster running of their foxes fromcover to cover, depending on the master ofhounds, huntsmen, and whippers-in to keep theirwell-trained pack together, then they required thefaster-running, sturdy hound, with little nose orvoice, and, therefore, bred the shorter-eared andnosed English hound of the present day for to K FOX HUNTING. I7 CHAPTER IV. HUNTING IN DELAWARE COUNTY. Delaware and Chester Counties, originallyand up to 1789 comprising one county, are prob-ably the oldest and best-hunted counties in Penn-sylvania. The memory of living man cannot goback to a time when hounds for hunting the redfox were not kept within their limits. Those living within a few years past, andsome of whom were born as far back as 1795, havetold us of fox hunts they witnessed when boys,in Middletown, Aston, and Concord townships:when Charley Pennell, Nicholas and Joseph Fair-lamb, Squire Baldwin, and Anthony Baker werenoted hunters, and later, we learn of hunts fromthe Black Horse and Anvil taverns, the former inMiddletown, and the latter in the part of UpperProvidence township which is now Media, num-bering among its hunting landlords GeorgeLitzenberg and Charley Wells, and of the stififrides made more dari
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