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doubtedly missed making an historic run of it by not go- 

 ing on after the six couples that were in front of us, and 

 were heading straight towards the Brandywine. 



It was a long but pleasant hack home for the few that 

 survived, who, besides the Master, were: Gerry Leiper on 

 "Miss Ebony"; Miss Ellen Mary Cassatt on the Master's 

 "Richmond"; Harry Barclay on "Jerry Rohan"; Bob 

 Montgomery; Randy Snowden on "Uncle Sam"; Miss 

 Eugenia Cassatt; John Converse; and Frank Lloyd. 



SUNNYBROOK FARM 



Thursday, 22nd April, 1920 

 In my early youth I was brought up to believe an oasis was 

 a beautiful place with flowers and lots of bubbling water; 

 and now that I am supposed to have reached that age 

 when one puts away childish thoughts, I find that my 

 childhood's definition was pretty near right; but I never 

 knew until last night that a real bona-fide foxhunting oasis, 

 laden with flowers and flowing with bubbly water, ex- 

 isted so near at hand as Isaac H. Clothier's Sunnybrook 

 Farm at Radnor. 



Webster says an oasis is " A fertile spot in a barren, 

 sandy desert " ; and as dryness is supposed to make a desert 

 — but why go on like this, let 's get to the point of the thing. 



About a month ago our good Quaker sportsman, Isaac, 

 invited us to this delightful dinner, to meet S. Laurence 

 Bodine, M.F.H., Radnor Hunt, and the birds that mi- 

 grate in the spring had all brought wonderful stories of the 

 bubbling water of life that they had tasted at Sunnybrook. 



There were thirty-five scarlet-coated foxhunters, be- 

 sides our host and his guest of honor, and from Mar- 

 tinis to Corona Coronas there was not a check. The field 



