The Millwood and Owl's Nest Hounds 



MASTERS - N. I. Bowdilch Esq. and R. F. Perkins. Esq. 



Frsuningham, Mass. 



HUNTSMAN _ One of the Masters 



HON. WHIPPER-IN John P. Bowditch. Esq. 



HOUNDS 1- 1 5 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE _ Framingham. Mass. 



DAYS OF MEETING - - _ Three days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON - - September 1st to March 1st 



BEFORE the present Master of the Middlesex Foxhounds was old 

 enough to go to school, fox-hunting in Middlesex County, Massa- 

 chusetts, was firmly established, and although the Millwood and 

 Owl's Nest Hounds are now little more than a small private pack, the Mas- 

 ters of the Norfolk and the Middlesex never hunt the Framingham country 

 without asking permission of Mr. N. 1. Bowditch, to whom the hereditary 

 title of M. F. H. has descended. 



As early as 1 866, Mr. E. F. Bowditch settled in Framingham, and his 

 small private pack, which was kenneled at " Millwood," his country-seat, has 

 always been kept up by his sons. Mr. Robert F. Perkins, the Master of 

 the Owl's Nest Hounds, who, in his college days, was a frequent visitor at 

 " Millwood," has been kind enough to give the authors some of his recollec- 

 tions of the early days, which we feel are of sufficient interest to the younger 

 generation of New England sportsmen to quote in full : 



" TTie private pack of E. F. Bowditch, Esq., has for fifteen years missed the 

 Master, who cared not only for the science of fox-hunting but also for the 

 splendid hospitality that went with it, the whole being simply an incident in 

 the busy life of a gentleman of means who lived all the year round on his 

 own estate and who combined his farming — which indeed embraced every 

 effort in that direction calculated to help the farmer — with the management 



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