54 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



hours and a half, and, when we pulled out at eight o'clock, 

 hounds were still going. I had a very nice ride on a mare 

 named "Rapacious," that afterwards was raced with some 

 success by Antelo Devereux. 



Saturday, ^th December, 19 15 

 That very good friend of Radnor, Sam Kirk, gave another 

 of his celebrated breakfasts at his farm at White Horse; 

 hounds meeting at eleven o'clock with both Kirk's and 

 Radnor hounds in the stable-yard. 



They found almost immediately, going away towards 

 White Horse, with a field of over eighty that seemed a bit 

 unruly at first, but at the pace hounds set, things were not 

 congested long. Hounds checked a moment in John Con- 

 verse's farm, then raced on into Delchester, where Alec 

 Brown and Henry Collins came to grief over a big fence 

 out of the orchard, and where hounds marked their fox to 

 ground. 



William Evans had a fall over a wire fence back of the 

 little schoolhouse and cut his horse's leg quite badly. 



Two foxes went out of the main Delchester covert at the 

 next draw, hounds settling on the line of one that took 

 them back to White Horse, through Fairy Hill to the 

 Klemm Farm, and on to ground in the Malvern Barrens. 

 Another fox was found in the Barrens, hounds pushing him 

 out the lower side, where we viewed him pointing towards 

 the big earth on the Disston property. Fred Sturges gal- 

 loped to the earth and kept the fox from going under. Rey- 

 nard then started down-country, but, keeping the White 

 Horse Farms on his left, made for Evans's meadow, then 

 on to Fairy Hill, through the cemetery, across the road, 

 and, turning right-handed at the back of the Penn Tavern, 

 hounds pushed him to earth also in Delchester, after a very 



