22 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



Collins, of Pittsburgh; Bob Montgomery; Miss Ellen 

 Mary Cassatt on "Tango"; Lowber and Walter Stokes; 

 Mrs. Galloney; Mr. Wain in his breakcart; Miss Rulon 

 Miller on a bay; Mr. Bodine; Mr. "Banker" Smith on a 

 big seventeen-hand grey; Mr. Crosby Brown; and Julian 

 Biddle 



Saturday, 20th December, 1913 

 Every one knows — or should know, at least — that fox- 

 hunting could not exist a moment in any country without 

 the cooperation and good-will of the farmers; and in a 

 country like Chester and Delaware Counties in Pennsyl- 

 vania, where not only the present generation of farmers, 

 but their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were fox- 

 hunters before them, the relationship is very close between 

 the so-called fashionable hunting-men and the farmer. 

 There is that bond between them that has just that "some- 

 thing" in it that no one can describe. One can never mis- 

 take it, that tie of friendship between foxhunters, no 

 matter where they meet; and I doubt if there is another 

 Hunt Club in America, besides Radnor, that is annually 

 given a Hunt Breakfast by a bona-fide farmer over whose 

 lands it hunts. 



That the native farmer of the Radnor country has fox- 

 lore bred in him, is extremely well told by Clifton Lisle in a 

 series of articles published recently, a part of which is as 

 follows: 



"Perhaps the best example of that deep-rooted love of 

 hunting which existed in the farmer of a century ago, as 

 strongly as it does in the one of to-day, is the story of 

 Jesse Russell, of Edgemont Township, on whose farm rose 

 Hunting Hill, then, as now, a well-known covert from 



