io6 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



the blood, too, and as Mr. Dale, in the Sporting and Dra- 

 matic News, says : " When you have hounds that can and will 

 race a fox to death in a bad scent, your equine bill will 

 be in exact proportion to your canine expenditure. At the 

 top of expenditure all your field will have two horses out 

 and a motor car. Your hunt servants must be equally well 

 mounted as the field, for whereas in one of the latter it is no 

 sin to go the pace he prefers, in the professional class, it is a 

 crime not to be there." 



It should be the ideal and desire of every whipper-in to 

 be huntsman, and, although a great loss to Radnor, we 

 were all delighted when Harry Brown was given the op- 

 portunity of going to the Cheshire in that capacity. It left 

 Radnor in a sort of a hole, as whippers-in are not the easi- 

 est positions to fill, and especially in war-times. A substi- 

 tute was nevertheless found in George Heatley. 



Every one was restless and thinking of what he could 

 best do in the war, and towards the middle of summer, the 

 opportunity came for a good many sportsmen in the Re- 

 mount Service, 



The Radnor M.F.H., Benjamin Chew, accepted a com- 

 mission as Captain, and immediately sent in his resigna- 

 tion to the Hunt. A special meeting of the Board of Gov- 

 ernors was called for ist August, 191 7, at the kennels. His 

 resignation was not accepted, but "laid on the table"; and 

 while having dinner on the terrace, the following Hunt 

 Committee was appointed to carry on during his absence: 

 W. Hinckle Smith, Harry W. Harrison, S. Laurence Bo- 

 dine, Rowland Comly, and J. Stanley Reeve, Chairman. 



Hunting by a committee has not been a success since the 

 days of Jorrock's onward. A Master is, and should be, an 

 autocrat as long as he is Master, but a Hunt Committee 

 will not do. 



