A snapshot at William Dalton on "The Clown" jumping a hurdle. 



CHAPTER III. 



William Dalton — James Chvisty — ^^ Narcissus " — " Comet " — G. H. Lee — '■'■ Rosa- 

 belle" — Boh Ward — Mr. Parry — Loftus Avkwright — Sam Block — P. Saun- 

 ders — " Needle Gun " — Washington Single — " May Morn " — Once Too Often 

 — '' Stella" — The Bycullah Meeting — William Symonds^J. Wilson, V.S. 

 - — '■^Volunteer'' — G. Bell Grippev — '■'■Romeo''' — Seymour Caldwell — '■'Ele- 

 vator" — A Big Jump — ^' Paddy" — Alfred Kemp — ^'Killarney" — ^^Harle- 

 quin" — Blachnorc — Edward T. Mashiter, M.F.H. — '^ Rylstonc" — Mr. and 

 Mrs. Howel J. Price — Mrs. Neill — Cub Hunting in 1896 — Matching Green 

 — Kirhy Gate — A Young Man s Country — Col. and Mrs. F.J. Fane — ^^ Royal 

 Chieftain" — '■'Ruby" — A Gallop over the Grass from Latton Park — Mr. 

 Stacey to the Front — Mrs. Carter's Escape — Check but not Checkmate — Getting 

 to the bottom of three horses — Mr. Bosley takes the Fox from the Hounds — 

 Ridley's Gorse—Mr. Swire Escapes a Watery Grave — Miss M. Green and her 

 horse " Comet" — The Advice of the Veteran — Sportsmen All. 



MR. JAMES CHRISTY, whose portrait is here given, on 

 one of his favourite hunters, " Narcissus," a chestnut 

 mare (of which more anon) bred by himself is well known to 

 all followers of hounds in Essex, whether fox or stag, but 

 particularly the latter. 



Born at Boyton Hall Farm, in 1845, which his father had 

 held under Lord Petre since 1836, he early imbibed a love 

 of the chase, for although his father was a very keen 

 agriculturist, and has, we believe, the credit of being the 

 first to introduce steam ploughing into Essex, he was at 

 the same time a keen sportsman, very fond of a day's hunting 

 or shooting. It will not surprise anyone, therefore, to know 

 that the staghounds met regularly three times a season 

 at Boyton Hall during the masterships of Mr. Frederick 

 Petre and the late Mr. Henry Petre, nor that the subject of 

 our memoir at a very early age became a keen stag-hunter ; 



