SEASON OF 1917-1918 



Owing to this terrible and almost universal war, certain 

 economies in hunting must be practised by those who stay 

 at home. Those who stay at home must "carry on" in 

 such a manner as to lose nothing in the way of efficiency, 

 yet to do so will be no easy task. 



It is one of the beauties of foxhunting that the sport is 

 not at all dependent on the scale of the establishment by 

 which it is carried on. Sport depends on the stoutness of 

 foxes, on the skill and keenness of the huntsman, and on 

 the steadiness of hounds. Some men like Sam Kirk would 

 show more sport with one horse and two couples of hounds 

 than would some others with horses and hounds galore. 



It is all very nice to have things on a liberal scale as we 

 have had in the past, but if we must do without, we must 

 do the best we can. 



Ben Chew, M.F.H., Bob Strawbridge, and I met at the 

 kennels on June 24th, to talk over the situation, and en- 

 deavor to put into practice some system of economies 

 whereby the usual Radnor standard of sport could be 

 carried on, but at a greatly reduced figure. Cutting down 

 is hard, especially so when it comes to the question of 

 putting down hounds, but it had to be done; so in consul- 

 tation with the huntsman, we drafted the following five and 

 one-half couples at once: "Gaylad," "Life Guard," "Fid- 

 dler," " Firefly," " FHrt," " Fair Play," " Lilock," " Hasty," 

 **Kirkie," "Dinch," and "Boston." 



If you halve the number of hunting days, you halve the 

 necessary number of hounds; halve the hours of the day 

 also, and you quarter the number of hounds; but we did n't 

 go as fast as that, for it is destroying the pack and perhaps 



