146 RADNOR REMINISCENCES 



Saturday, 2gth November, 1919 

 It looked as though it might pour at any moment, when 

 hounds met this morning at White Horse at ten o'clock; 

 but the wind was from a good quarter for scent, northeast, 

 and a field of forty-six turned out, despite the fact that 

 the McFadden Ball had kept up until the wee small hours. 



Fairy Hill was the first draw, and, while hounds were in 

 covert, Mrs. Munn's groom. Holly, viewed a fox slipping 

 out the west side. Will Leverton brought the pack out of 

 covert, when they owned the line at once, crossing the 

 Bryn Clovis Dairy Farm, over the road and on up-country 

 to the hill back of Miss Hook's, where hounds swung left- 

 handed, and it looked as though a fresh fox went away in 

 front of hounds, as two and a half couples crossed the 

 Goshen Road into Dutton's Mill; but the main body of the 

 pack, fourteen couples, turned back down-country over 

 practically the same line as we had gone up; the fox evi- 

 dently going under in his home earth at Fairy Hill. It 

 was a good thirty-minute starter for the day. • 



The second fox broke from the lower side of the Mal- 

 vern Barrens, at the same instant that one was viewed out 

 the upper end. Fortunately, as it was beginning to rain 

 quite hard by now, hounds came out of covert on the line 

 of the fox that was pointing down-country, and ran with a 

 breast-high scent right on his heels down the long meadow 

 to the road, over it, bearing slightly left-handed to the 

 Boyer Davis Farm, and on into William Evans's wood, 

 crossing the creek in the wood and over the hill into Evans's 

 big meadow, where hounds were put to their noses, scent 

 being quite catchy from there to Cathcart's Rocks. 



In coming out of the White Horse Farm, Bunny Sharp's 

 pony slipped in crossing the bridge and went down. Cap- 

 tain Count Frassau, of the Italian Army, who was gallop- 



