THE MILLWOOD AND OWL'S NEST 



been the reason for its irregularity. Of late years, there has scarcely been 

 a week in the season that either the Millwood Hounds, now reinforced by 

 southern drafts and ably managed by Mr. John P. Bowditch and his sister 

 Miss Elizabeth Bowditch, or the Owl's Nest Hounds — Mr. Perkins' — 

 have not been out. Sometimes there is a Field of a dozen, oftener only the 

 family and a few guests ; but the hunting has always prospered and always 

 will, in spite of the hindrance of wire, for the farmers are used to the family 

 and are always glad to see them. 



Mr. Perkins is still keen and always in the saddle with his hounds, hunt- 

 ing them himself, and in speaking of the sport, past and present, he concludes 

 as follows : 



" Old Brown sits by his cottage door and wishes us well, as we ride by 

 with the grand-children his old Master never saw, and the tears come into 

 the old man's eyes at the memory of the days that will never come again." 



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