82 



LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



quin " to victory for the light weight and Welter Hunt Cup at 

 Rundells. Mr, Kemp was a regular polo player with the West 

 Essex Polo Club for many years. A good judge of horse or 

 pony, he generally managed to pick up some bargains, though 

 they were not always the easiest animals in the world to ride. 

 Golf now occupies Mr. Kemp's spare moments, and since his 

 election in 1898 (the year before this portrait of him on 

 " Dolly " was taken by Miss G. Waters) as Captain of the 

 Royal Epping Forest Golf Club at Chingford, with its 500 

 members, he has found plenty to occupy him in that line. 



Alfred Kemp 



BLACKMORE ! At last you have retrieved your name, 



For once again your sacred groves do ring 



With huntsman's cheer and melody of hounds, 



And hearts that once were sad are now aflame ' 



With joy ; and loudly shall your praises sing 



That blank no more, of Woodlands you are King. 



Satisfactory very it is to have to record that at least on the last three 

 occasions when hounds have paid a visit to these noted woodlands they 

 have found, not one, but several wiry foxes. Monday, March 23rd, was 



