PREFACE 



Brook in the old days, and Mr. Allen Potts, Editor of the Richmond Times- 

 Dispatch, for much information about the southern Hunts. 



In addition to these, our cordial thanks are due to the following gentlemen 

 for assistance cheerfully given: — 



Dr. Charles McEachran, late Master of the Montreal, who, together with 

 its present Master, has aided us in compiling the history of that oldest of 

 American Hunts, Mr. Hugh Allan and Mr. Frank Seabury, late Masters 

 of the Myopia, for valuable information of its early days, Mr. J. L. Randall 

 for his poem, " The Goose with the Golden Eggs," which appeared in " The 

 History of the Meynell Hounds and Country," published by Messrs. Samp- 

 son Low, Marston & Co., Mr. Charles Hopkinson and Mr. Richard 

 Newton, Jr., M. F. H., for their permission to reproduce portraits painted 

 by them and, finally, to Messrs. J. E. Green, A. F. Bradley and W. N. 

 Jennings for the use of valuable sporting photographs. 



We would add that in the few instances where no photograph of either 

 the Master of a pack or of his Huntsman appears, the omission is due solely 

 to that Master himself, every opportunity having been afforded him to fur- 

 nish the necessary portraits for reproduction in these pages. If any Hunt 

 has been omitted from this volume it is for the same reason, but the authors 

 feel that in giving it to the public they are offering the only accurate publi- 

 cation of its kind in America. 



In conclusion the authors, both being hunting men, feel that if their fellow 

 fox-hunters derive half as much pleasure out of the reading of this book as 

 they have in the writing of it, they will rest content. 



A. HENRY HIGGINSON. 



JULIAN INGERSOLL CHAMBERLAIN. 



South Lincoln, Mass., 1 908. 



Note : The change in the name of the Charlottesville Hunt to the Albemarle County Hunt, recently 

 made, occuned too late to be noted in the chapter on that organization. 



