CONTENTS xiii 



seventy-three packs — Never wrote till he was forty-four — His 

 hunting career — His vanity — His extravagance — Straitened 

 financial circumstances — Experiences in Hampshire — His courage 

 in literature — His egotism — Remarks on his works — Mr. Surtees 

 — His modesty — Early books — "The Yorkshireman " — "Charley 

 Stubbs" . . . ... page 158 



CHAPTER V. 



MORE FAMOUS HORSEMEN OF THE CENTURY 



Welter weights — Mr. G. S. Lowe's opinions — Welter M.F.H.'s — 

 Mr. Tom Edge — Mr. Gurney — Mr. Little Gilmour — Colonel 

 Wyndham — Mr. Tyler — Mr. E. Davey — Mr. Henry Greaves — 

 — Mr. Villebois — Mr. John Chaworth Musters — Mr. Chandos 

 Pole — Mr. Henry Chaplin — Mr. Fenwick-Bisset — Mr. Trist — 

 Compton Wyngate run — Wolford Wood run — Wellesbourne 

 Pastures run — Sersay Wood run — Exmoor runs . . page 197 



CHAPTER VL 



THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HUNTING-FIELD 



"Geoffrey Gambado" — Peter Beckford — Henry Aiken — William 

 Somerville — William Blane — "Nimrod" — Mr. Surtees — Old 

 sporting papers — Encyclopaedias — Georgina Bowers — Mr. A. E. 

 Pease — Mr. Delme Radcliffe — " Brooksby "—" Cecil " — Mr. 

 Warburton — Lord Ribblesdale — W. C. Blew — "Harry Hieover" 

 — "Scrutator" — "Wanderer" — Mr. G. Finch Mason — " Thor- 

 manby" . , . ... page 21^ 



CHAPTER Vn. 



STABLE MANAGEMENT 



Sanitation — Situation — Light — Structure — Ventilation — Major 

 Fisher's opinion — Windows — Gangways — Doorways — Flooring 

 — Loose boxes v. stalls — Pillar reins — Mangers — Saddle-rooms — 

 Saddlery — Relations between master and man — Tom Moody — 

 Charles Davis — Comparison between servants in 1800 and 1900 

 — Farriers — Veterinary science — " Cecil's" formulae . . page it,"] 



