Monkhams 



CHAPTER V. 



Monkhams — The Romford Election — Mrs. Bennett — Snow-clad Fields— La Grippe 

 — Joseph — This Side and That — High Easter — A Bad Start, blame it ! — 

 C. E. Ridley's Gorse — Doneraile — Walter Ridley — Fly-by-Night — Mrs. H. 

 H. Elder — Sweep — H. H. Elder — The Miller — Walter Green can't raise a 

 halloa — One outlet — Stirrup to Stirrup — Four down — Deer Park — Tresham 

 Gilbey—Rev. R. L. Scott — Joan — Passing ford Bridge— Rev. J. H. R. 

 Pemberton — The Mottled Horse — W. Patchett, Q.C. — R. C. Lyall — Solomon 

 — How we killed the ColoneVs Fox in the Pnckeridge Country — Abridge — 

 /. E. Tabor — R. D. Hill — Business — Dandy Dick — No ice in the coffee — 

 W. Maitland Tower — Boinerang — Yokohama — Arthur Capel-Cure — T. C. T. 

 Warner — The Axe and Compasses — On Foot — The King William — Lords 

 Wvod — Thafs one of 'em, Cramphorn. 



NASING Common on the card used to be the bete noir of hunting men 

 in the winter months, for it generally meant a frost. In this season, 

 however, of 1896-97, Passingford Bridge has acquired an unenviable 

 reputation. Twice already has it been put down for a Monday's meet and 

 each time frost has stopped proceedings. Let us hope that at the next at- 

 tempt we shall have better luck. No one thought it fit for hunting : no, not 

 even the youngest and most enthusiastic of a band of brothers, all of them 

 very fond of the game, whom we overtook near Tawney Hall, as, in company 

 with our secretary (Mr. Bevan) and the hunt staff, we jogged towards the 

 meet. Mr. Sworder had not mounted his good black, but although he 

 came on afterwards he did not alter his opinion that any attempt to ride 

 across country (at least, over fences) with the bone still in the ground 

 would be a very risky proceeding — a conviction that was shared equally by 

 the dozen or so who had ventured to the meet ; the practicability of killing 

 a fox (although the tempting bait of a crisp five-pound Bank of England 

 note was not lacking), without jumping a fence, not appearing feasible to 

 the huntsman in the Passingford Bridge country. Mrs. Bennett, Miss M. 

 Buxton, Miss Jones, Mr. D. Cunliffe-Smith, Mr. Swire, Mr. Gregory, Mr. 



