Mr. OKIE'S Hounds 



DISTINCTIVE COLLAR - - -Green with orange piping 



MASTER - - - - F. W. Okie. Esq. 



HUNTSMAN - - The Master 



WHIPPER-IN James Anderson 



HOUNDS - 1 5 couples, American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE MarshaU. Va. 



DAYS OF MEETING Six days a week 



LENGTH OF SEASON September Istto April 1st 



SOME eight miles south-west from Upperville, further up the Pied- 

 mont Valley, lies what is, perhaps, the best territory from a hunting 

 man's point of view in Fauquier County, Virginia. It is a compara- 

 tively undiscovered country ; in fact, it was not until 1 904, when Mr. F. 

 W. Okie emigrated to Virginia from the Meadow Brook country, that there 

 was any regular hunting. Mr. Okie settled at Marshall and, finding the 

 country perfect for the sport, promptly began to keep hounds of his own. 



The foxes throughout Mr. Okie's country are strong and game, and the 

 attitude of the landowners entirely favorable. The Master has always been 

 a believer in the American foxhounds, and beginning with a few couples, 

 he has developed a pack which now niunbers fifteen couples and which 

 does its work in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. The country, like all 

 of the Piedmont Valley, is open, with great rolling grazing lands and small 

 coverts, while the fencing is stiff but clean, owing to the stock-raising pur- 

 suits of the farmers. 



A strong, clever, thoroughbred horse is what is needed for the country. 

 Mr. Okie has a large country estate at Marshall and always welcomes visit- 

 ing sportsmen in the most hospitable manner. 



In 1 905, Mr. Okie acted as alternate judge v«th Mr. James K. Maddux 

 in the English-American foxhound match in the Piedmont Valley. 



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