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Rappahannock Hunt

Holds Opening Meet

Saturday, October 25, the Rappahannock Hunt started off its 1958-59 season with an' interest* ing morning hunt and a delightful “twi-light breakfast” at, Stonehaven^ the WoodviUe home of their host and hostess, Mr,, and Mrs. (Jeorge E. Muth, * ’•.f*. , At. 8:50 on that cool, moody morniifg, the Rappahannock pack, clustered at the heels of the H unts\man’s horse, swung through the •Muth’s honeysuckle covered, entrance and up the long, straight r valley road toward the! house. In thejr Wake came Joint-Mister, jim Bill Fletcher, his two hardhunting daughters, Buckie and Cathy, and two junior! Dodsons. ■',/ It was a fine sight to jwatch the steady, Controlled approach of this colorful little group toward the friendly 18th century stone house of the Muth’s. One "felt a similar , scene had been enacted many times in that secluded valley during thepast two hundred years.

A Well furnished boullion table sporting its “two American Flags" the Union and the Confederate, gave a cheerful note to the initial hunt. v!vThe

field of seventeen included two Honorary Whips, Wade H. Massie, III and Oliver Durant, II; Jade Bruce and his daughter Diane, Elzy Brown, Mrs. Paul A. Loscly, Mrs John A. Hunt, Mrs James

B31y Dodson. Mrs. A, C .Randolph, MFH of the Piedmont ; Hounds, added, as she always does, to the hunting keenness of the ‘day. Led by both Joint Masters, Jack DeBergh and Jim Bill Fletcher, the field followed hounds immediately up, up, up the mountain,

A grey was struck on rise north side of Fielding and provided a' twenty minute run that ended with a view of the fox, tailed ragging, in Fincharos Hollow, a

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