THE MEADOW BROOK 



The drag pack, which was the property of the Club, continued to go out 

 three days a week in the afternoon, making a total of nine "days" (!) a 

 week during the season of 1905-6. 



This proved a failure, Mr. Foster failing to show even as good sport with 

 the English foxhounds as Cotesworth had, and at the end of the season his 

 connection wth the Hunt was severed. Neither did Mr. Vamer show any 

 great sport, cind he returned to Arkansas at the end of the season. The 

 drag continued to hold its own in the eyes of the hard-riding element who 

 only considered hounds as an excuse for a steeplechase. 



The season of 1906—7 was rather more successful. James Blaxland 

 hunted Mr. Collier's American foxhounds, while Edgar Caffyn acted as 

 huntsman to the draghounds, now recruited by the remains of Mr. Keene's 

 once famous pack, many of which had been sold ; but Mr. Collier found that 

 he could not spare the time to devote to two packs, and as he wished to 

 continue his private pack in New Jersey, he resigned his Mastership at the 

 close of the season. In the spring of 1 907, the draghounds were hunted by 

 a committee, but b the summer Mr. Samuel Willets was elected to the 

 Mastership, and as he had no proper pack of foxhounds, he invited Mr. 

 Paul Rciiney to hunt the country three days a week wth his private pack of 

 American foxhounds, the draghounds continuing to go out as usual under 

 Mr. Willets' Mastership. 



This is the state of affairs at Meadow Brook at present writing, Mr. 

 Willets now having about thirty couples of Ejiglish hounds m the kennels. 

 Just what the coming years may bring forth is an open question ; but certain 

 it is that the members of the Hunt and the residents of Long Island ^v•ill a\- 

 ways wish sport of some sort — be it drag-hunting or fox-hunting — across 

 their country. 



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