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assiduously chased twice weekly during the 

 months of September, October, and November. 

 Mr. Adam Beck, the present Master, is consid- 

 ered one of the best the club has ever had, and 

 furnishes the members, who average about twenty 

 at each meet, with as much sport as can be had 

 under the existing conditions. 



The Middlesex Hunt Club, of Massachusetts, 

 with a membership of about fifty, musters an 

 average attendance of fifteen in the saddle, in- 

 cluding three or four ladies. It was founded in 

 1899, and for the first year or two had only six 

 or eight couples of hounds; of late years, how- 

 ever, great pains have been taken in getting to- 

 gether as good a pack of English hounds as ix)s- 

 sible. Forty odd couples have been imported 

 from the Essex Union and the Southdow^n Hunts 

 in England, and they will be considerably 

 strengthened during the present season by im- 

 ports from the Belvoir, the Fitzvvilliam, and the 

 Duke of Beaufort's kennels. Mr. A. Henry Hig- 

 ginson has been Master since the organization, 

 sharing the honors in 1900 with Mr. Howard 

 Snelling, and in 1904 with Mr. Julian Chamber- 

 lain. Robert Cotesworth, late huntsman to the 

 Earl of Bathurst, is the present huntsman, and 

 under his able management the pack will show 

 material improvement over past form. Consider- 

 ing the class of country, many good runs and 

 the occasional killing of a fox are had, the latter 



