CHAPTER IX. 



Stovmer — Mr. Quare and his Harriers — Epping Forest — How to recover Hounds — 

 The success of the Suaviter in modo manner — Epping Town in summer dress — 

 Mr. Quare looks back upon a record season — His success at Peterboro' — The 

 annual meeting at the Green Man, 1899 — The Steeplechases at High Roding 

 Bury — Theodore Christy on "Schoolmaster" — Season 1899-igoo — Some 

 changes — Cub hunting — A Lion story — Bay's Grove — Record sport in November 

 —Fitz Johns — The Transvaal War — Volunteers for the Front — Our Handy 

 Man — A good run from Galley Hills — Pleshey Mount — Bushetts — The Lawn 

 Meet at Dudbrook — Imperial Yeomanry — Guy Gold, Philip Gold — Audley 

 Blyth, Rupert Blyth of the D.C.O. — Sydney Green — Guy Lobb — Gordon 

 Lobb — Godwin St. John Lobb. 



Mr. Ouare's Harriers. 



WHAT makes Mr. Quare so popular .'^ The question was put 

 to me on Saturday, February 25th, by a man who 

 possesses a keen insight into human nature, and whose pro- 

 fession is constantly calling- upon him to give decisions upon the 

 motives that underlie much of the bye-play going on around him 

 on the world's stage ; and yet this shrewd observer had to con- 

 fess that he was unable to solve this apparently simple problem. 

 One or two reasons I gave him then and there. Before 

 the day was over I could have given him a third, and that one 

 good enough to account for any popularity, and to it I will 

 allude later on — contenting myself with two at the present 

 moment. 



