The Blue Ridge Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - Navy blue 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, navy blue facings 



MASTER - Edward Gay Butler, Esq. 



SECRETARY - - Townsend Burwell, Esq., Millwood, Va. 



HUNTSMAN - The Master 



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HOUNDS 1 2 couples, American 



KENNELS " Annefield." Millwood, Va. 



POST OFFICE - Berryville, Clarke County, Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING Wednesday and Saturday 



and holidays 



LENGTH OF SEASON September 15th to April 15th 



THE Blue Ridge Hunt, which was founded in 1 888, with head- 

 quarters at Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, is blessed with 

 one of the most beautiful hunting countries in America. The 

 large rolling Shenandoah Valley, with the Blue Ridge on the east and the 

 Allegheny mountains on the west, affords a variety of country which it 

 would be hard to equal ; strong woodland coverts where the foxes are 

 plentiful, stony upland pastures and acres of good blue-grass are there, while 

 the fencing is of every variety — stone walls, post-and-rails, Virginia snake 

 fences, and last, but not least, alas ! the wire, the greatest curse of the 

 hunting man, in America as well as in England. And, worst of all, on the 

 increase here, as in many other places. If the farmers only realized the 

 truth of the poem at the end of this volume, they would never put up a 

 strand of wire again ; but even with this drawback, the followers of the Blue 



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