MR. MADDUX'S 



country hounds run very fast, requiring a bold, thoroughbred horse to stay 

 with them. 



Mr. Maddux's pack is a small one ; some ten couples only being kept in 

 the " Leeton Hill " kennels and maintained, of course, by the Master, who 

 receives no subscription. He has always hunted the hounds himself and 

 for the last eight or ten seasons has gone out on every good hunting day on 

 which circumstances permitted. 



The attitude of the landovmers about Warrenton is very friendly to fox- 

 hunting, and many of them take the field themselves behind Mr. Maddux's 

 little pack. 



In 1904, the M. F. H. applied for recognition to the National Steeple- 

 chase and Hunt Association, which was promptly granted. The country 

 about Warrenton is fast settling up with people who are always on the 

 lookout for sport with horse and hound, and Fields have increased in number 

 since the early days, numbering from twenty to twenty-five on an average, 

 while on special occasions many more follow, none of them bemg keener or 

 going better than Mrs. Maddux, the vnie of the Master, who hunts not only 

 with her husband's pack, but also vsrith the Warrenton " drag." 



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