220 



LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



Another curious thing. At High Roothing Street C. E. Green actually 

 left hounds before the run was over. 



A Gallop at Last. — The meet, " Birch Hall ; " the date, Monday, 

 February 28th. A good muster, mounted and on wheels, including many 

 ladies, viz., Mrs. Gerald Buxton, Misses M. and T. Buxton, Mrs. H. J. 

 Price, Mrs. Mcintosh, Mrs. Radford, Miss Jones, Miss Barnes, Miss 

 Morgan, Mrs. Bennett, Mrs. and Miss Waters, Miss Fane, Mrs. Neill, 

 Mrs. Grossman, Miss M. Green, Mrs. Barron, Mrs. F. Ball, Miss Savill, 

 Major Ricardo, Tyndale White, John White, C. E. Green, F. Green, Syd- 

 ney Green, ^'^ Loftus Arkwright, J. Todhunter, F. Avila, H. Sworder, A. J. 

 Edwards, F. Basham, R. C. Lyall, D. Grossman, Gapt. Bruce, Ford Bar- 

 clay, G. H. Lee, A. Roddick, Sir Evelyn Wood, V.G., G. Buxton, Victor 

 Buxton, R. Barron, E. Gockett, R. Bevan, W. M. Galloway, Col. Fane, 









'^T'^v^g^^^^*^' 



.^.v-r 





4. 





Wilson Springs 



D. Gunliffe Smith, R. Cunliffe Smith. R. Waltham, A. Flint, H. J. Price, 

 and others. 



Hacked on to the meet with Douglas Grossman, who was riding my 

 horse " Liscarton," having screwed up most of his own. Trotted straight 

 off to the late Mr. Mills' stick heap— blank ; ditto, Barber's ; ditto, the Hill 

 Hall— Sir Charles Smith's coverts; not even a whimper in Beachetts. 

 Georgie Waters, however, put up a fox in Gaynes Park, but beyond running 

 him the length of Ongar Park Woods w^e could do nothing. 



Drew the rest of the Gaynes Park preserves, not expecting to find again, 

 Bailey remarking, as we reached Rough Talleys, that if we did find, hounds 

 would not run, as there was no scent. Taking it rather too easy in con- 

 sequence, I suddenly awoke to the fact that something was up, and none too 



He volunteered and went to the front in 1900. — Ed. 



