The Middlesex Foxhounds 



(MR. HIGGINSON'S) 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR White (Green facings and piping worn by 



Master and servants only.) 



EVENING DRESS Scarlet coat, white collar, green facings 



MASTER A. Henry Higginson, Esq. 



SECRETARY - Grafton St. L. Abbott. Esq., Concord, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN The Master 



KENNEL HUNTSMAN - Edward Cotesworth 



WHIPPERS-IN - - S !"', David Thornton 



( 2nd, r red Hoxford 



HOUNDS 50 couples, English 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE South Lincoln, Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON - August 1st to February 1st 



MANY people in Massachusetts think that fox-hunting proper 

 is quite impossible in that State because of the difficulty of 

 riding to hounds. If the matter is carefully looked into they 

 would see, as have the followers of the Middlesex, that while it is impossible 

 to be with hounds all the time, it is perfectly feasible to be on terms with 

 them in nine cases out of ten, and that, given a fair chance and efficient earth- 

 stopping, hounds will kill often enough to keep blooded, while the lover of 

 hound work will be rewarded by many a good hunting day. At Myopia 

 and Norfolk, both near neighbors of the Middlesex, only the drag is hunted, 

 and when one realizes that many of their members are business men with too 

 many duties to allow them to devote an entire day to the sport, this is quite 

 natural. At Middlesex it is somewhat different ; the pack is in every sense 

 a private one and the Hunt Club proper, which is very small, has little to do 

 with its management, the Field being free to all. 



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