4 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



run of eighty-five minutes all through the lower country; 

 hounds finally losing him back of Bromall, near the Marple 

 Road. 



Among those hunting were: Harry W. Harrison; W. 

 Plunket Stewart; Charlie and Mrs. Snowden; Harry Bar- 

 clay; Miss Kitty Smith; Rowland Comly; John and Mrs. 

 Converse; Mrs. Valentine; Devy and Mrs. Devereux; R. 

 Nelson Buckley; Benjamin Chew; Edwin L. Blabon; Mr. 

 Fiske; Miss Emily Barclay; Ben Holland; and Bayard 

 Rives, of New York, who had just bought Mr. Wain's 

 mare "Lady Hannah" for I500, and thought her so satis- 

 factory that he went to Mr. Wain and wanted him to 

 accept a few hundred more for her 1 



Saturday, 21 sf November, 19 12 

 As we arrived at Penn Tavern this morning for the meet 

 at ten o'clock, a farmer in the bar-room said the Rose Tree 

 hounds were coming up country towards Green Briar, and, 

 as Green Briar was to be our first draw, we met Rose Tree 

 just east of the covert, chatted a moment with Sam Pink- 

 erton, the huntsman, and then the two packs joined 

 forces. 



Hounds were no sooner in covert than a fox was viewed 

 out the far side, pointing up-country over the same line 

 that we had on Tuesday, and, with the two packs running 

 as one, the proverbial blanket would have covered the 

 thirty-four couples as they flew on towards the Westtown 

 School, making a complete circle of the school buildings, 

 leaving it left-handed and going south to Locksley sta- 

 tion, with our field of seventy-five rapidly thinning out, 

 and Chris Hagan's new purchase, "War Whoop," already 

 having given him two tosses. 



A freight train was seen coming directly across the line 



