The Deep Run Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR Confederate gray 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, Confederate gray collar and facings 



MASTER ~ J. St. George Bryan, Esq. 



SECRETARY Jaunes A. Graves, Esq., Westmoreland Club, Richmond, Va. 



HUNTSMAN - - - ClarenceHall 



HON. WHIPPERS-IN \ l"',"?? Pot^^' Esq. 



( 2nd, Edward Hams, Esq. 



HOUNDS - - 15couples, English 



KENNELS Deep Run Hunt Club, Henrico County, Va. 



POSTOFFICE - - Richmond, Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING Saturdays and two bye-days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON October 1st to April 1st 



FOX-HUNTING in Henrico County, around Richmond, and in 

 Chesterfield County, just across the James River — the Deep Run 

 country — is almost as old as the Colony itself, for a settlement 

 called Henricus was founded where Richmond now stands the year follow- 

 ing the foundation at Jamestown, and ever since that time hounds have been 

 run over the fields and through the woods around the present capital of 

 Virginia. 



There were no organized clubs in Virginia before the war between the 

 States ; a fact easily accounted for when one remembers that every country 

 house in the State was practically a clubhouse open to the friends of its 

 owner. Nearly every country gentleman maintained a pack of hounds of 

 some sort, and hunted whenever his fancy walled, so that a gentleman of 

 sporting proclivities could make a round throughout Virginia and hunt almost 

 every day with a different pack. During and after the war tfiis state of 



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