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Double-Feature Hunt
By Mary Jamieson
TTjc 99 99/100 percent humidity that encased the Rappahannock foothills the morning of November 13 provided almost perfect scenting conditions for foxhunting. On that misty, moisty Saturday morning, a small cluster of hunt enthusiasts gathered at the Fowlers’ gate to see the Rappahannock Hunt off. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Crowe, Miss Flora Lee Muth and her guest from the U. of Va. law school, Miss Mary Joan Mac Kland, Miss Inga Jeppsson, house guest of the Tholands, and our most faithful supporter and mainstay, the lively Mrs. James W. Fletcher, composed this damp but cheerful cluster.
At 10:15 hounds were roaded up Long Mt. At 10:30 the Hunts-, man cast hounds beneath Helen Fuller’s house. At 10:31, they struck-sure and hard. Immediatelv that mountain began .,to ring. That special spine-tingling quality...-—at once primitive and joyousL....could be heard in all 21 hound voices. For a good 45 minutes they trailed dose on the brush of their grey, before flushing him into the open and over the big Marsh pastures to his den, high on the side of a grazed field.
At noon hounds and huntere were returning to their vans, when hounds hit again; this time in the woods directly above the Fowlers’ stone house. The race started with a long fast canter over MerryBerry covered fields, always within sight of the pack. With concentrated and careful work, hounds drove their second grey into his hole on the side of a branch bank.
The first race was outstanding for the excitement of “hound music”, it was the real thing. The second was interesting because hounds could be seen and followed almost
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