Arthur B. Giles's "Moonstone" 



CHAPTER VIII. 



B. Giles's ^'Moonstone" — Cubbing in 1898 — A fast thing with Mr. Qnave's 

 Havvievs — An Indian Snmmcv — Moreton — Witney Wood — A land of win — 

 The Aniateuvs kill their Fox — Presence of Mind — A Perilous Position — The 

 Parndon flyers — Seiifell's '^ Holloa" — Will Hurrell — Life and Death — High 

 Roothing Street — Olives — The Ash trees on the Sky Line — Bach to the Thrift — 

 Blue Gates — 18 miles from home — Rev. G. Maryon Wilson and Miss Maryon 

 Wilson — Hunt Breakfasts— The Wood below Boiver Wood — A Stern Chase — 

 Left behind— The Happy Four — Norwood — Running for Brick- Kilns — Taking 

 a Header — Boxing Day, i8g8 — Thoby Wood and Priory — Mr. Baddeley's 

 "Magic" — Mr. P. M. Evans's ''Katie" — Toujours Pret — Broken Backs 

 — Barbers — The South Wilts — Good Easter — Myless Lodge — Jack Turner 

 hunts the hounds — Dorsetshire doubles. 



SEASON 1898-99. Being away in Scotland the whole of October, I can 

 give no details of the cubbing season ; but I learnt, when I made my 

 first appearance with hounds when they met at Coopersale, on Friday, 

 November 4th, that I had missed very little sport, but with plenty of foxes 

 in most parts of the country, that prospects of sport were very rosy. 



A day in the woods in the cubbing season will always attract a large 

 field, so that what was a small number at g o'clock had swollen to a large 

 band an hour later, and included some of the most constant followers of 

 the E. H. 



Mr. C. E. Green, Mrs. Waters, Mrs. Bennett and her two pretty little 

 girls in pink jackets, Mr. R. Y. Bevan, Mr. E. A. Ball, Miss Jones, Miss 

 G. Waters, Mr. and Mrs. D. Grossman, Miss D. Prance, Mrs. W. Sewell 

 and Miss D. Sewell, Mr. Ford Barclay, Mr. W. Cook, Mr. Tyndale White, 



