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Title: Down the eastern and up the Black Brandywine..
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: MacElree, Wilmer W., 1859-
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Publisher: (West Chester, Pa., F. S. Hickman, printer)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eneath what ripples fall-fish lie, can point out shady pools that hide the sparkling sun-fish, and better still, can prove his statements accurate bycatching them. Besides his piscatorial knowledge, Drapers ac-quaintanceship with birds is wide and intimate. In his collection,one can see almost every variety to be found along the Brandy-wine—giant herons, green herons and black-capped night-herons,loons and bitterns, blue-winged teal and green-winged teal, blackducks, fish ducks, mallards and wood ducks, great horned owls,long-eared owls and short-eared owls, besides Acadian, snow,screech and barn ; red-tailed hawks, broad-winged hawks, cooperhawks, arrow hawks, pigeon hawks and marsh hawks, jacksnipes and sand pipers, rail birds and reed birds, a bald eaglefrom Nantmeal Marsh, and a lot of warblers from BowersIsland. With few exceptions Draper has shot them all. Hisloon was shot at Copes Dam—his bittern below BirminghamPark. Through his kindness I present them to my readers. ( 164
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60 is o c MATHERS MEADOW. Lo ! now Azvay ! the Fox has gone.Forsakes his haunts and trusts his brawn.And led by his instinctive guides,Adown the current wind he glides ;Nor slacks his foot, nor veers his course,But onward holds through grove and gorse.Until by Dungeon Hollows strand.He feels the moist air fresh and bland;And sees his mirrored form below.And hears nor hound nor Tally-ho! Everhart—The Fox Chase. HE Fox Chase is Everharts mostspirited poem. Dedicated to John Hick-man in 1873, it has ever since beengreatly appreciated by all lovers of thenoble pastime of huntynge with run-nynge houndes. The late John W.Forney regarded it so highly that heunhesitatingly assigned it a superiorplace to the celebrated blank verse quarto called the Chase,which appeared in 1735. Here, at Lenape, waiting for theWest Chester car, the cry of hounds half a mile down thestream, recalls to my mind that the scenes of Everharts Fox165 )

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