82 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



Charlie Morris, the Middlesex first whip, fell into a big 

 open ditch, west of Cathcart's Rock, going clear under the 

 slime with his horse on top of him, but fortunately coming 

 out none the worse, except being covered with brown scum. 



The Radnor Hunt gave a luncheon for Higginson at the 

 Club House at two o'clock, to which about fifty came and 

 ate of the very good game-pie, etc., with hot toddy and the 

 famous Radnor Yellow Port. 



Among those hunting and at the luncheon were: Ben 

 Chew, M.F.H., and Mrs. Chew; A. Henry Higginson, 

 M.F.H.; Jacob S. Wain; R. E. Strawbridge; Dave and 

 Mrs. Sharp; the Misses Beatrice and Gertrude deCoppet; 

 Fred and Mrs. Sturges; Edw. B. (Banker) Smith; Laurence 

 Bodine; Lemuel C. Altemus; Edward F. Beale; Mrs. Paul 



D. Mills; Mrs. Howard H. Henry; Mrs. Reeve; Mrs. Dev- 

 ereux; Mrs. Victor Mather; Harry W. Harrison; William 



E. Carter; Rowland Comly; Edwin L. Blabon; Edwin 

 V. Dougherty; Wycoff Smith; R. Nelson Buckley; and 

 Horace B. Hare. 



Tuesday, 26th December, 19 16 

 Folk may talk with pride of the pace of a run, and it's all 

 very well at times, when the going is good and one has not 

 dined too well the night before; but the uncertainty of 

 foxhunting and the condition of one's nervous system are 

 not by any means the least of the charms of a day with 

 hounds. 



Take to-day as an example, the going quite as bad as 

 even the Devil himself would have liked, and scent just 

 poor and catchy enough to keep hounds working all the 

 time. Suppose scent had been top-hole, where would the 

 field have been? Sadly left behind. But, as it was, we 

 were able to stay right alongside hounds for a couple of 



