Mr. HITCHCOCK'S Hounds 



MASTER Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Esq. 



HUNTSMAN - - The Master 



WHIPPER-IN J. Lambert 



HOUNDS 40 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE - Aiken, S. C. 



DAYS OF MEETING Four days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON - - November 15th to March 1st 



FEW men who have hunted in England and seen the excellent work 

 of a good English pack will listen to any comparison between 

 English and American hounds, or between the two methods 

 of following the sport of fox-hunting. Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., was 

 educated at Oxford University and has hunted with almost all of the best 

 packs in the Kingdom, and yet he maintains forty couples of American 

 hounds — one of the largest packs in the country — on his estate at Aiken, 

 South Carolina, and is as staunch an upholder of the American hound as 

 he was of the English twenty years ago. Mr. Hitchcock was one of the 

 men who were instrumental in founding the Meadow Brook Hunt and was 

 one of its earliest Masters, continuing to hunt there to-day at such times as 

 he is at his home at Westbury, Long Island. 



Some years ago, looking about for a place where he could hunt through- 

 out the winter, he hit upon Aiken, South Carolina, as the most suitable 

 locality, and during the last decade has maintained there his private pack of 

 foxhounds, hunting them himself usually four days a week from the mid- 

 dle of November until the end of February. 



While Mr. Hitchcock is partial to the American hound, he, of course, 

 admits the good qualities of the English, but insists that for the kind of 

 country which he hunts the Americans are far superior. His views are so 

 strong, and were so clearly expressed to one of the authors of this volume a 



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