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to the kennels for the terriers, and, after waiting nearly- 

 half an hour in the cold, which about froze every one stiflF 

 the terriers arrived and were put into the drain. The fox 

 was bolted at once, heading south; hounds had difficulty 

 carrying the line, but finally took us over into Yarnall's 

 Hollow again, where scent failed completely, and every 

 one quite ready to go back to the Club to thaw out. 



Among those out were: B. Chew, M.F.H.; Mrs. C. R. 

 Snowden; D. B. Sharp; Henry C. Barclay; Bob Straw- 

 bridge; Julian Biddle; Harry Harrison; Miss Betty 

 Sinnickson; Miss Austin; William M. Kerr; Nelson 

 Buckley; and Walter Stokes. 



Saturday, 20th January, 19 17 

 Foxhunting has no law, but only custom and etiquette 

 to fall back upon, and it is therefore always a great relief 

 to a sporting community when any little difficulties or 

 differences in a countryside are patched up. 



Rose Tree and Radnor have had some slight misun- 

 derstanding recently over what is known as the lower 

 country. It so happened on several occasions that both 

 packs of hounds appeared in the same locality the same 

 day. Finally a meeting of the respective Masters was ar- 

 ranged. No, not to fight, as had been jokingly suggested, 

 but to settle their differences by a friendly talk. Both 

 Masters took along a few wise advisers, and the out- 

 come of it all was that Radnor was to hunt the country 

 south of the West Chester Pike, three times a month, and 

 on those days the Rose Tree hounds were to hunt else- 

 where. But the joke of it was, that the very next time 

 Radnor met in the lower country. Rose Tree was also 

 there. Some people, whose names had better not be 

 mentioned, were pretty mad; but Mr. Rose Tree apolo- 



