CONTENTS XI. 



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Strathmore wins the Worcestershire Steeplechase on " The 

 Switcher" — The Old Club — " Carlow's " cleverness — Dick 

 Sutton — Captain Coles — A brilHant scurry — Good Champagne 

 — Billesdon Coplow— Mr. Frere's House— Mr. Surtees— Mr. 

 Gascoigne — Lord Gardner— Leicestershire men's dislike of 

 ditches — "Cognac" takes a stiff line of stiles — Lord Forrester 

 — Ranksborough Gorse— Mr. Parry — Captain Houblon — 

 Hallingbury Hall — Simpson's discrimination — "Cognac's" leap 336 



Chapter XHI. 



The General Fast Day, 1847 — John Vickerman Longbourne— Jack 

 learns a lesson — The Finchley Stag Hounds — Jim Bean — Mr. 

 Garland — Old Meshech— Hobson's spurt — A twenty mile point 

 — An eighty mile ride — The Aftermath — Baron Rothschild's 

 Stag Hounds — " Cognac " bolts— A Disaster— The Quorn at 

 Six Hills — The dislike of Meltonians for mud — The Chartist 

 Demonstration — Special Constables — Mr. V. is sworn in — An 

 unlucky season — The Opening Meet, 1848, at Row Wood — Mr. 

 Vickerman parts with "Cognac" — A week of Disasters — Mr. 

 Petre's Harriers — The Blackmore Beagles — West Essex Yeo- 

 manry — Coventry Steeplechases — " Cognac " falls — The Victim 

 wins — Riding for the Brush — Abraham Caton's Beagles — The 

 Puckeridge, 1850 — Eastwick Wood — The Four Men in Pink — 

 The test of a good run — The Epping Hunt, Easter Monday, 

 1850— Up ! Up ! Up ! — The Take in the Open — Bridle roads — 

 " Carlow " draws Mr. V. to Church on his Wedding Day — 

 Season 1850-51 — A bye day with Conyers — The Great Drought 

 — Mr. Conyers advertises his meets for the first time — Lord 

 Petre — Boyton Hall — The Christys — Essex as a Hunting 

 Country — The choice of six packs within fifteen miles of Black- 

 more — The hind "Lucy Long" — An Old Park fox^The Miller's 

 maid — Barking Creek — The End of the Season — Boys at play 356 



Chapter XIV. 



Season 1851-52 — Hunting in Surrey — A Dry Season — Surrey Fences 

 — Season 1852-53 — The Red Lion, Duherton— Stag Hunting 

 on Exmoor — Mr. Carew — Dr. CoUyns — The Castle Hotel, 

 Lynton — The Surrey Stag Hounds — Arthur Heathcote, M.S.H. 

 — A Hunt Breakfast at the Durdans — Essex Stag Hounds — 

 Petres Four — Russian Deer — The Bishop of Waltham — Season 

 1853-54 — W^ar, Pestilence and Famine — A Gloomy Outlook — 

 Mr. Henley Greaves, INLF.H. — Messrs. Tattersall — A bad Pur- 

 chase — Blank Days — Warnings off — The Surrey Deer " Snow- 

 storm " — Season 1854-55 — Changing Residences — Bagging a 

 Subscriber — " The Clipper " gets away — Catch him yourself, 

 then ! — The Spotted Hind — Sir Charles Smith to the front — 

 Thomas IVIashiter — Old Superstitions — Unlucky Questions — 

 William Honeywood's Harriers — Boreham House — Mr. Vicker- 

 man's Summary of Season 1856-57 — A Good Run in 1858 — 

 James Stallibrass means Mischief — Season 1858-59 — Donate's 

 Comet — The Great Drought — Dangerous Going... ... 396 



