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Excerpt from Radnor Reminiscences a Foxhunting Journal An Arab proverb says, "True happiness is only to be found in two places - on the back of a horse and in the arms of the woman you love." Whether this happiness is divided fifty-fifty between the horse and the woman is rather a delicate matter; so to save the feelings of the ladies, maybe we had better not discuss it; but on one thing we will all agree, including the ladies, and that is, that a great deal of happiness has been derived from the back of a horse. Foxhunting and hunting-journalism are two quite different sports. The uninitiated are too prone to picture hunting as largely composed of elbows and legs, broken bones, scratched noses, and love affairs. That all of these do exist in the hunting-field, I will admit; but think for a moment of the other benefits to be derived. They are so numerous, it would be folly for me to undertake to write them down. Just as long as men and fair women have red blood in their veins and sporting spirits, hunting will continue; but hunting-journalism may disappear any minute, principally owing to the assassination of the poor journalists. They say it is always a mistake to apologize for ones efforts, but I must; and I offer them to the editors of The Tatler and The Sporting and Dramatic News of London, for the many sayings of their gifted correspondents that I have appropriated. To my other friends - well, maybe they wont be friends after they read these humble efforts; but I do offer my most sincere thanks to Miss Dorothy Mather and Mr. Benjamin Chew for their kind assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.