The Endean Beagles 



(MISS BIRD'S) 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Dark green habit, Canary waistcoat. Hunt buttons 



MASTER Miss Edith H. Bird 



HUNTSMAN ■■ The Master 



HON WHIPPERS-IN ' '*'' ^''* Katharine Roosevelt 



( 2nd, Miss Helen Homans 



HOUNDS 12 couples, 16-inch beagles 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE - East Walpole, Norfolk County. Mass. 



DAYS OF HUNTING Monday, Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON September 1st to December Ist 



IN 1901. Mr. Charles S. Bird of East Walpole, Norfolk County, 

 Massachusetts, formed a pack which has now developed into one of 

 two regular organizations of their kind in America managed and 

 hunted entirely by women. In England and Scotland there are one or two 

 packs of harriers, and in Ireland a pack of foxhounds, which have a woman 

 as Master ; but the Endean and the " Castle Hill," in Albemarle Coimty, 

 Virginia, are, at the present time, the only packs of that description on this 

 side of the water. 



Beginning in much the same way as the Middlesex Hunt — with a few 

 couples of beagles, kept for his own and his friends* amusement, Mr. Bird 

 began to hunt the country around East Walpole quite regularly, at first two 

 and then three days a week. Drag-hunting was adopted as being the best 

 means of getting a gallop, although the hounds were, and still are, hunted on 

 hares towards the close of the season. As anyone who has enjoyed the 

 experience knows, a 1 6-inch beagle can run a well-laid drag line at a pretty 

 good pace, and Mr. Bird soon began to have followers from among his 

 friends and neighbors. 



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