The Green River Hunt 



MASTER - - - Frank Sherman Peer, Esq. 



SECRETARY Wentworth C. Bacon, Esq., Greenfield, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN The Master 



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( Znd, 1 homas W. King, Lsq. 



HOUNDS 1 2 couples, English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Greenfield, Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - Three days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON - September 1st to December 1st 



EARLY in the spring of 1907, some lovers of fox-hunting, Mr. 

 Frank Sherman Peer, Mr. Wentworth C. Bacon, and Mr. 

 Thomas W. King, who were living in Greenfield, Massachu- 

 setts, determined to start a small pack of hounds to hunt the country lying in 

 the valley of the Green River. 



Greenfield is a great centre for the sheep-raising farmers of Massachusetts, 

 and the country, which is the upper end of the Connecticut Valley and 

 comparatively free from vAre, affords a pretty good opportunity for fox- and- 

 drag-hunting. Foxes are very plentiful, but as is the case in most parts of 

 Massachusetts, coverts are so large and dense that it is practically impossible 

 to follow hounds closely for any distance, a condition which makes a certain 

 amount of drag-hunting necessary to satisfy the demand for sport. Mr. Peer, 

 the M. F. H., and Mr. Bacon, who are the leading spirits in this little or- 

 ganization, secured a couple of drafts of good working hounds from the Mid- 

 dlesex, and, if they have luck, should in time breed a good pack from these. 

 Even at present, they manage to give sport to a small but enthusiastic Field 

 of ladies and gentlemen, hunting both fox and drag. All things must have a 

 beginning, and the Green River Hunt has two qualifications which ought to 



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