INTRODUCTION 



By Benjamin Chew 



M.F.H. RADNOR, I9I5-I917 



It takes the perspective of time to write history. It takes 

 still more time and the increasing perspective for us to 

 read history; especially to read it with a seeing and un- 

 biased mind and to appreciate the values which only the 

 perspective of time can bring before our mental vision. 



It may seem that to class the following record as history 

 is to bring it into too great importance. Nevertheless, it is 

 a part of the history of our country and of our civilization. 

 It records a phase of life which has much to do with the 

 racial consciousness of our people. Would that its influ- 

 ence had been greater and more widespread in this great 

 land of ours! 



Sport is one of the links of heredity which has come to us 

 from our British forbears; sport being the lighter visible 

 sign of our finer inherited qualities: energy, fair play, 

 manhood in the best sense; justice, honesty, and observa- 

 tion; love of the land and of the great outdoors; all are ex- 

 pressed in and developed by sport. More especially by 

 foxhunting; let us not say the "Sport of Kings," but the 

 King of Sports. 



Foxhunting has flourished in this country of ours for 

 two hundred years; not fostered by the rich, but main- 

 tained and loved by the plain men of the land, the men 

 who, when times of strife stirred the land, were the first to 

 answer the call of the land and leave their homes and fami- 

 lies and give themselves, their hopes and joys and goods, 

 to the service of their country; and can we but feel sure 



