THE NORFOLK 



sachusetts Volunteer Militia, was elected as his successor, and for a time 

 hunted over much the same territory. As the Fields grew in number, how- 

 ever, various members began to settle at Westwood, a little village some 

 few miles west of Dedham, and in 1900 the number of riders had in- 

 creased so much, and the country had become so restricted, that the hounds 

 cind horses were moved during the hunting season to temporary quarters in 

 Medfield, where some of the members hired a house for the season, while 

 others stayed at the Inn. This proved such a successful experiment that in 

 1 90 1 a property of over one hundred acres, on the line between Medfield 

 and Dover, was bought, and a clubhouse v^dth sleeping accommodations for 

 about forty members, good kennels, and stable facilities for over sixty horses 

 were built. So it was that six years after the Hunt had been organized it 

 was duly incorporated, and Mr. Francis Feabody, Jr., who had long hunted 

 with the Myopia at Hamilton, was elected President of the new organiza- 

 tion, known from that time as the Norfolk Hunt Club, Captain Parker con- 

 tinuing in the capacity of M. F. H. until 1 903. 



While Mr. Balch was Master, no attempt was made to do anything but 

 hunt the drag; but Captain Parker was more ambitious, and in 1899, en- 

 couraged by the enthusiastic support of a number of lovers of fox-hunting, 

 he took the pack down to Cape Cod and hunted the wild fox along the 

 sand dunes of the coast, after the ground in Norfolk County had frozen too 

 hard to admit of hunting about Medfield. 



From an indifferent lot of hounds Captain Parker set to work to produce 

 a pack which could also be used for the better sport of fox-hunting, and 

 with this end in view, Andrew McGregor, a Scotchman of considerable 

 experience, was employed as huntsman in 1899, and is still in the employ 

 of the Club. He and Captain Parker, working together, improved the 

 hounds very much, breeding a good many, and getting yearly drafts from 

 the Montreal, but at the close of the season of 1 902, Captain Parker re- 

 signed his office — having found that it took too much of his time — his 

 resignation causing great regret among the members of the Hunt, who ap- 

 preciated his untiring efforts to improve the pack and the country. 



Mr. Henry G. Vaughan, the present Master, was elected in his stead, 



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