20 The Hunting Field With Horse and Hound 



It must not be inferred from the above that there are no 

 genuine sportsmen among wealthy Americans. While wealth 

 seems to be a great handicap to sportsmanship, many men in 

 our country are justly entitled to the distinction in spite of 

 wealth, and furthermore, the writer believes the hunting field 

 affords more numerous examples of tliis than any other 

 American sport. 



For instance, the blood of some good old British sportsman, 

 after lying dormant for many years, has lately come to life 

 with the freshness of sj^ring in the person of Mr. A. Henry 

 Higginson, Master of the Middlesex Hunt, who resides at 

 South Lincoln, some eighteen miles west of Boston, Mass. Mr. 

 Higginson is not only the proud possessor of one of the best 

 packs of English Foxhounds in America, but better still, he 

 has caught the true spirit of hound breeding and has given the 

 subject his jjersonal attention. Beginning some ten years ago, 

 Mr. Higginson tried many experiments with beagles until in 

 1903 he felt ready to undertake the main object he had 

 always had in view, the formation of a really A K'o. 1 pack of 

 hounds. 



The Middlesex Hunt is favoured Avith a good class of 

 landowners, who welcome the riders and hounds over their 

 fields. A gamekeeper is employed who spends much of his 

 time in looking after the young foxes that are raised in the 

 Middlesex territory and in stopping their earths prior to a 

 day's hunting. Tliis makes it possible to kill, and this is 

 essential, for it is certainly very discouraging to hounds, if not 

 to riders, to go out day after day and season after season for 

 this purpose and never to accomplish it. 



If you want a good time all the time, pay a visit to the 

 Middlesex Kennels. A walk and talk with Cotesworth, the 

 huntsman, when he goes out to exercise the pack or when 

 feeding his forty odd couples of most promising puppies, will 

 sui'ely be accounted a treat, for there is probably not a better 



