204 Horse and Hound, 



eries of the enthusiastic hunters, there is scarcely 

 a field that is not wired or fenced with stone 

 walls. The hounds are English, of the large type. 

 The horses are highly bred, many of them being 

 thoroughbreds. Three meets a week are held, 

 from September ist until frost; no spring hunt- 

 ing being indulged in. Mr. George S. Mandell, 

 of Boston, has been the Master since 1901. 



Another well-known club is in Fauquier 

 County, Va., the Warrenton. Hunt, which has 

 been in existence since 1889. Mr. John D. Hooe 

 is the President, and Mr. U. D. Benner is the 

 Master. The hunting season is an unusually long 

 one of forty meets, and the twelve couples of 

 American hounds are given a lot of work after 

 the drag. The attendance averages twenty-five, 

 a goodly percentage of whom are ladies. 



The Blue Ridge Hunt, of Virginia, with 

 twenty odd members and ten. couples of hounds, 

 hunt in Clark County, a rolling, open country, 

 with a great variety of fencing, including stone 

 walls. The Master, Mr. Edward Gay Butler, al- 

 ternates the pack upon drag and wild foxes twice 

 a week, with fifty per cent of the members in the 

 saddle. 



The London Hunt Club ( Canada) , organized 

 in 1885, has a membership of 145, with sixteen 

 couples of good English hounds. For the first 

 ten years of its existence, wild foxes were hunted, 

 but since then the wily anise-seed bag has been 



