The Portsmouth Hunt 



DISTINCTIVE UNIFORM Steel gray, black velvet coUar 



silver Hunt buttons 



MASTER - Arthur Cowton Heffenger. M. D. 



HON. HUNTSMAN Charles P. Heffenger. Esq. 



WHIPPER-IN - Jeremiah Casey 



HOUNDS 1 couples. American 



KENNELS AND POST-OFFICE Portsmouth. N. H. 



DAYS OF MEETING \ Two days a week usually 



( Wednesday and Saturday 



LENGTH OF SEASON \ September ! St to January 1st 



( March I St to May I st 



ONE of the strongest supporters of the American hound in the 

 east is Dr. Arthur Cowton Heffenger of Portsmouth, New 

 Hampshire. A Virginian by birth and educated for the United 

 States Navy at Annapolis, Maryland, he acquired his love of fox-hunting 

 during his early days in the south and retained this in spite of some years' 

 service in the Navy ; so that when he settled in Portsmouth, he promptly set 

 about following his favorite sport in that part of the United States, which is 

 hardly of such a character as to offer, at first glance, much encouragement to 

 a riding man. 



The Portsmouth Hunt was founded in 1885, and Dr. Heffenger has 

 been Master throughout its history, and has hunted the hounds, which he owTis, 

 twice a week during the season, for twenty-three years. This season lasts 

 from September to January, and from March to May, and there are no 

 regular days, hounds going out when conditions are most suitable. Some 

 hunting is also done during August, September and May, at night. The 

 country is flat or gently rolling, but very cramped and rough, the fields being 

 small, with many stone walls, and about half the territory is wooded or cov- 



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