PALM BEACH HOUNDS 4 March
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Palm Beach Hounds Nine Gems, Florida
“NOTHING should exist here. It's hostile to all life!” gushed Andrew Marren when he invited me to come and hunt with him in Southern Florida. As pitches go, I thought this left something to be desired, and yet here I was at a meet of the Palm Beach Hounds, dressed as befitted a January day in Tipperary and already steaming in the heat.
We met at Nine Gems, so named for its nine lovely reed-fringed lakes. The terrain comprised widely spaced pine flatwoods, freshwater marshes and tangled expanses of low-growing palmetto. It
