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field trials, brings together a very large number of fox hunters, 

 hound breeders and fanciers with representative hounds of pri- 

 vate packs from Virginia, Kentucky and even South Carolina. 



The Norfolk Hunt at Medfield, ]Massachusetts, is one of 

 the smartest up to date hunt clubs of New England. The 

 genial M. F. H., Mr. Henry Vaughan of Boston, has devoted 

 much personal attention to the organisation and the building 

 of a very attractive club house. A better stud of high class 

 heavy weight hunters it would be hard to find in any American 

 Hunt. JNIr. Vaughan hunts a drag pack, also a wild fox pack, 

 so there is something doing nearly all the time. The hunts- 

 man is a man of great experience in kennel management and 

 a nailer to follow when hunting the hounds. The hunt is over 

 rough stone walls and timber country. 



The Myopia Hunt at Wenham is to Boston what the 

 Meadowbrook is to New York. The writer has no personal 

 knowledge of tliis club, but its reputation has gone far and 

 wide, especially as one of the wealthiest hunt clubs in America, 

 and as "money makes the mare go" they have certain ad- 

 vantages perhaps over their less favoured rivals. 



The writer's ideal sportsman is the man or woman who 

 knows the game from A to Z. He would eliminate every 

 pastime from the list of sports that did not begin and end in 

 the skill and prowess of the sportsman himself. A man who 

 rides his own racehorses is a sportsman, the man who races 

 horses with a jockey may be a sport, but he is no nearer to 

 being a sportsman than a person who pumps a pianola is to 

 being a musician. The man who sails his own yacht is a sports- 

 man, the man who togs out in yachting clothes, because he has 

 a steam launch and a hired man to run it, may pass for a yachts- 

 man, but not for a sportsman. Motoring, except racing 

 between owners who drive their own cars, may be called recrea- 

 tion, but it is too much of a tax on imagination to call it sport 

 or the owners sportsmen. 



