ar "

ar " the" Rappahannock land.

Th^ -*C. Ravmorid Wires of

I■ '

k;that make up

“square'* miles of

Waahirigtdtri1 6.C., now own,

weekends and

green’s lovely

nds hunted

jk are the

bred by the

called the BywaterS hounds, they are a sturdy, staffer breed of foxhourro and considered to be without ftar^B America.

in 1926, ^I^H^pniunting went on con#fter

the Civil War,

Reorganized in 1953,

rinock Hunt covers

ory whktt&tarts at

r (liwambar Front

run^Pl^'along the

side of the Blue Ridge /Mofthtiips "tq Madison, Va., east tofCulpeper and north to Amissyille, Rappahannock, .whichi hu»t*^4._couple of hounds and thinks nothing of chasing ^fox.up into the mountains and' back down again, giving the field some riding that ‘coilld only be touched the pihrock slides at Fprt'“ Riley, goes out on Wedriesdayk ana Saturdays starting October 15 and ending ofi March’15.

yS^art; season

* ■'fRdif. |/b^hi-t’b-p6int opens the seafeon in Virginia on the first SatugfoftjfflyiMarch and, for fhe past two years, has been* ontheJim Bill'Fletcher’s ldrtd, Using a ‘ small tract of theif *Veverdl thousand acres .which forms a natural course between the ’ Valley and the hills/;*; v 1

OhCof thb most hospitable hunt^ ih Virginia, each member - •p'f* Rappahannock is allowed to* invite a guest a month' td hunt. Otherwise therer‘is a gapping fee of $10 foV “viatdr's. or strangers” with the fete jgoing to help support the p&jk. ‘ f ,* '

Mrs. t^on *r. Greenaway of Washington, Va. is honorary I secrfe'taryT arid the honorary Whippprs-In are Mr. W.G. Eastman, . Mr. Leon T. Greehttwhy1 ah<f Mr. Bernard i Dahlgrpp,. .The, professional huntsman'. of the

Ra.Rp£jpinnc>ck is Wilton Jacksqp,Bruce and the kennelman, Maurice Garter. -

LasLSaturday hourfds met at George E. Muths’ Stonehaven, four miles south of Sperryvjille. The Muths, who commute from Washington,.?*D.C., for weekends, gave’ a hunt breakfast with, the ljugh P. Crowes after the field came in. The Crowes