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CHAPTER IV. 



Siittons — Sir Charles Cniiliffe Smith — Anxious Moments — Two Broken Backs — 

 And the Bay still Leads the Van -What Mr. Vickerman thought of the 

 Nasing Country — Mrs. Mcintosh's '' Maqnet" — Mrs. Gerald Buxton on 

 " Phroso " — The Meet of Mr. Quare's Harriers at Thornwood Common, 

 December ^th, i8g6 — Canes — Mr. Jerrard comes to Grief — ''Pinafore'' — 

 Bohhingmorth Windmill — A Good Day in spite of the Colonel — ''King Ehor " 

 — Save a Jump — Thomas Cowee on " The Rebel " — Running for Barbers — 

 Blood will tell — The Belvoir Gordon — Seeking a Cine — Ongar Park — L. T. 

 Carr — Our Young Nimrods— Knightsland Wood — The Bob-tailed Fox gets 

 away — Lost in the Fog — Miss Ethel M. Jones — Snatched from the Frost — 

 Tattle Bushes — Nether Hall — Rye House — The Boy on the Long-tailed Bay 

 — H. W. Horner — Rupert — The Admiral, Charles Bury — Vicarage Wood — 

 Over the iron railings — Barnsleys to Little Laver — Ain't he a varmint ! 



SIR Charles's name is frequently mentioned in Mr. Vicker- 

 man's diary. He no longer rides across country, leaving 

 that to his son, whose portrait will be found on another page. 

 Owning, as he does, a large tract of land w ith several important 

 coverts, in the heart of the Monday country, he exercises a 

 great deal of influence over the sport enjoyed in that district ; he 

 has also been from time to time as occasion arose, a very 

 liberal subscriber to the Hunt funds. 



Wind N.E., meet Fyfield ; given a sound horse in your stable, not to 

 be missed for a dukedom. 



Not past the Truant Schools, for the Osiers we rode on Wednesday, nor 

 yet through the picturesque village, but along the Beauchamp Roding road 

 to Mr. Caton's mustard for an outlyer, and he was there. A fierce 

 scramble at the black gate out of the road, a man fishing for a stirrup iron 

 pulled out in the crush. Hounds hovering for a moment up the hedgerow, 

 and then the field, swooping down like eagles on their prey, was the fleeting 



