The Berkshire Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Green 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, green facings 



MASTER David T. Dana, Esq. 



SECRETARY Charles Astor Bristed, Esq., Lenox, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN - The Master 



KENNEL HUNTSMAN David Somerville 



WHIPPERS-IN i 1"^ ^^'^^ 



( 2nd, Peterson 



HOUNDS 1 4 couples. English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Lenox, Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING Tuesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON September I st to December 1st 



IN the spring of 1903, a few gentlemen who spent the summer and 

 autumn months in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, of whom the 

 moving spirit was the late Arthur Sturgis Dixey, Esq., decided to es- 

 tablish a small pack of draghounds, to be supported by subscription from the 

 summer residents living in and about Lenox. Mr. Dixey, being aware that 

 Mr. A. H. Higginson, with whom he happened to be acquainted, was giving 

 up a pack of beagles which had shown very good sport after a drag in 

 Middlesex County, headed a committee which, after visiting the kennels, 

 eventually purchased the entire pack. 



Starting in this small way, the Berkshire Hunt has grown, until now it has 

 been recognized by the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association and 

 has a large following. 



The beagles soon proved to be too slow to please the Field, owing to the 

 character of the country, in which stone walls and snake fences predominate ; 



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