THE MONMOUTH COUNTY 



manner in which he turns out his Hunt Staff, it is difficult to find fault with 

 their selection. 



The Monmouth County country, which lies about Eatontown and Red 

 Bank, New Jersey, is very well suited to drag-hunting, which is the manner 

 in which the sport was first followed. Finding that the climate of Monmouth 

 County was unsuited to a long season, the Master took his hounds to Chevy 

 Chase, Maryland, in 1 894, for part of the winter season, and there took alter- 

 nate days with the Chevy Chase, hunting about Washington late into the year. 



Drag-hunting in Monmouth County was never given up ; but this being a 

 private pack, Mr. Collier has been accustomed to take his hounds at certain 

 times of the year to outside countries, and in 1 900 they went to Newport 

 for a season of about six weeks. There are no hounds near Newport, and 

 as the summer residents of that well-known watering-place have been enthu- 

 siastic in their support of Mr. Collier's pack, the fields turning out in pretty 

 considerable numbers for the six weeks early in the season in which he has 

 had them there, he has continued to make this a yearly practice. 



In 1 904, when Mr. Foxhall Keene resigned the Mastership of the Meadow 

 Brook Hunt, Mr. Collier was elected to take his place, and feeling that he 

 could hardly shoulder the responsibility of two packs of hounds, his son, Mr. 

 Robert J. Collier, undertook the management of the home pack, and has 

 handled it with great success. 



Mr. Collier has now resigned Mastership at Meadow Brook, and will prob- 

 ably, in the future, spend most of his time with his own hounds. In 1 904 he 

 received from Mr. Norman Harris of Louisville, Kentucky, a present of four 

 couples of American hounds, and these, together with drafts from the kennels 

 of Mr. Walker and Mr. Trigg in the south, have formed the nucleus of his 

 American pack, he being of the opinion that in his country American hounds 

 can show better sport after foxes than their English cousins. 



The country over which the Monmouth County hounds hunt is larger and 

 better than any about New York ; and having always been hunted, not by 

 a club, but by a private pack, the landowners are somewhat easier to deal 

 v«th, as, of course, a Master who is responsible to no one, and who has al- 

 ways lived in the country, can be on the most cordial terms with the farmers. 



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