42 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



hire, Elkridge, Green Spring Valley, Harford County, 

 Middlesex, Mr. McComb's Hounds, Meadow Brook, 

 Piedmont, Pickering, Radnor, Rose Tree, Mr. Riddle's, 

 White Marsh Valley, and Wheatley Beagles, Radnor 

 Beagles, Mr. Justice's Beagles, Mr. Barnard's Beagles, 

 Mr. Rieger's and Somerset Beagles. 



Showing fox hounds was more or less of a new game to 

 many of the Masters, but it was most encouraging to 

 some of us who had worked over the show to see their en- 

 thusiasm and to have their support; and, whether their 

 hounds won or lost, they all promised to come back next 

 year. 



Wednesday, iSth November, 1914 

 As Chester County and the Radnor side of Delaware 

 County are under quarantine, owing to the epidemic of 

 hoof and mouth disease, Radnor hounds are forced to re- 

 main in kennels. 



As Rose Tree, under M. Roy Jackson, M.F.H., are still 

 going out, Plunket Stewart, Fred Sturges, and I had a 

 most enjoyable day with them, meeting at the Rose Tree 

 kennels at eight-thirty, with a small field of eight, in- 

 cluding Mrs. Sellers, Emanuel Hey, "Lee" Riddle, George 

 Donnon, and a colored man, who annoyed Plunket Stew- 

 art greatly, by being always just in front of him, until 

 hounds found and were really away, when we had things 

 all to ourselves, while it lasted; but the pleasure was short, 

 though exciting, nevertheless. 



After drawing several large coverts, a fox was finally 

 viewed away from Darlington's Thicket; hounds giving 

 volumes of tongue and, only two fields behind their fox, 

 raced him for about five minutes, catching up with him 

 at a worm fence; the fox zigzaging through it, with hounds 



