8 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



put their fox under, and, while there was a great tow-row- 

 ing going on around the earth, Borden decided he wanted 

 a closer view of the proceedings, and in jumping a barway 

 from the road into the field, his horse turned upside down, 

 giving him a nasty-looking fall, but, fortunately, he was 

 none the worse for it. 



Tuesday, lyth December, 19 12 

 A. Henry Higginson, M.F.H., Middlesex, is stopping 

 with me, and, being very anxious that he should have a 

 good day with hounds, I was more than satisfied, as we 

 had two runs, both of which were top-hole. Mr. William 

 M. Kerr very kindly mounted Alex., so he was on the 

 right sort of cattle to go, which was fortunate. 



As we were moving oflF from White Horse at ten o'clock, 

 Sam Kirk's hounds came up the road, so the two packs 

 joined and found at the first draw; a fox going out of the 

 meadow below Fairy Hill, and, turning up-country, 

 crossed the Bryn Clovis Dairy Farm to Sugartown, where 

 hounds turned left-handed and came down the vale very 

 fast to Dutton's Mill, and on through to the West Chester 

 Pike, where, at a moment's check, the field caught up; 

 then, at a backward cast, they turned down-country, 

 finally marking their fox to earth in Charlie Snowden's 

 wood, after a very nice forty-five minutes. 



Our second fox was viewed away from the far side of 

 Green Briar Thicket, with, unfortunately, only four and a 

 half couples of hounds on the line, and with the greater 

 part of the field left behind on the lower side of the covert. 

 But what we lacked in numbers, we made up in quality; 

 our fox, pointing his mask towards West Chester, bore 

 slightly left-handed, and hounds, keeping the Westtown 

 School on their right, raced up-country, over the school 



