THE LOUDOUN COUNTY 



do so still. Sometimes he joins with the Loudoun County — which is in real- 

 ity little more than a trencher-fed pack — and sometimes he takes them out by 

 himself or with a few friends and, sitting on his horse on top of a hill from 

 which he can command a view of the surrounding country, enjoys his sport 

 after the old-fashioned southern style. The Loudoun County country is 

 really Mr. Heflin's, and he hunted it long before the Club was formed ; but 

 in Virginia, the old settlers respect each other's claims to hunting country very 

 little, or to put it in another form, everyone is welcome in any man's country. 

 This example might well be followed by some of the northern Hunts, 

 which amuse themselves by quarrelling over the division of countries over 

 which they have absolutely no rights. The Loudoun, however, cannot be 

 called one of these. It is a Virginia Hunt, organized by Virginians, and 

 whenever northern hounds have hunted over its territory they have done so 

 at its invitation. 



In 1 894, several residents of the country, among whom were Mr. Arthur 

 Mason Chichester, Jr., the Club's first President, Mr. W. A. Metzger, who 

 has been its Secretary ever since its inception, Messrs. E. V. White, Henry 

 Fairfax of " Oak Hill," William C. Eustis of " Oatlands House," David B. 

 Tennant, William Heflin, Henry Harrison of " Utopia," and a number of 

 others, organized under the name of the Loudoun County Hunt Club. Mr. 

 Tennant was elected M. F. H., and for a year hunted a pack of nondescript 

 American hounds. 



In 1905, Mr. Tennant resigned the Mastership, greatly to the regret of 

 everyone, and Mr. David B. Stevenson was elected in his place. Mr. 

 Stevenson's term of office was very short, as he found himself forced to move 

 to the north for business reasons ; but during his Mastership a drag pack 

 was also maintained and used up to November 1 st, before the crops were in. 

 During the summer of 1 906, Mr. William C. Eustis, who was acting M. F. H., 

 bought the entire pack of the Piedmont hounds from Mr. Dulany and 

 presented them to the Club, and a few months later Mr. Westmoreland 

 Davis, who had recently purchased the large and beautiful estate of " Morven 

 Park," near the town, was elected M. F. H. He thereupon set to work to 

 make Leesburg the great hunting centre he had always hoped it might be- 



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