FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



again became good, but I fear the war period made 

 many changes, faces were absent and money short 

 for some Uttle time in those post-war years. Whilst 

 the war was in progress hunting kept going through- 

 out — old Ted Brown and Tom Freer Meade were 

 acting Masters, and they and Joe Willis carried on 

 making a good effort to keep down the foxes. I 

 remember going out a few days during the first 

 winter, but eventually all our riding-horses were 

 either commandeered or bought up, and then it 

 was impossible. I, for one, had to stop. 



It is rather amazing how you lose your nerve 

 when absent from the hunting field for long. I 

 found myself quite useless to follow hounds until 

 I was able to regain a little confidence by judicious 

 riding and what I call a nursing of the nerve. It 

 only shows how necessary it is never to slacken off, 

 if you do, you must call " finis," and I am not 

 particularly anxious to do this just yet. 



I have very little knowledge of how the finances 

 were found to keep going during those war years. 

 Col. Fuller and others I have no doubt were generous 

 donors, but I do know that Lord Banbury generously 

 contributed J^ioo per annum during these years, 

 and what perhaps is even more generous, continued 

 his subscription right up to the date of his death in 



1936. 



After the war period I became a member of the 

 Hunt Committee, of which Lord Banbury continued 

 to be Chairman ; although active, hunting he 

 rather avoided during his latter years. 



He really was a most efficient Chairman, but like 



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