CONTENTS 



Chapter I. 



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Lord RookwooJ — Lady Rookwood — Lancelot RoUeston — -Desdi- 

 chado — ^Janies Bailey —Some hard riders with the Essex in 

 1879 — Making acquaintance with Essex ditches — November 

 frost — Richard Beale Colvin— George Dawson —R. Womersley 

 — Harry Bagot — Epping Bury — ^Albert Deacon— J. Todhunter 

 — Captain Meyer — Cub Hunting in 1881 — The Crcmc dc la Crime i 



Chapter H. 

 Hervey Foster — Pilgrim — Major J. F. Foster — Katafelto — The 

 Bold Trimmer — Cubs in Bushwood — Barnsleys to Forest Hall 

 — W. Bambridge — Disastrous Days — General Mark Wood — A 

 Big Jump— Empty Saddles^Col. Lockwood — -Bishop's Hall — 

 Robert Lockwood — Friar — Bull's Eye— Watchman — The Cus- 

 tomers in 1873 — The Warren Fox— A Wet Season — Full Cry 

 through Waltham Abbey — James Green — Across Country from 

 Parndon Hall — Who's for Epping ? — Rolls Park— Col. S. 

 Howard — Bob Ward — Hertfordshire Woodlands — Arundel — 

 Boyton Cross — Edward Gibson — Screens — Matching Green, 

 1883 — Roothing Ploughs — Multum in Parvo — Phantom ... ... 33 



Chapter HL 

 Major Tait — West Essex Polo Club — Qui Vive — Kitty — Meets not 

 Advertised— St. George — Duke and Duchess of Albany at 

 Easton Lodge — Xmas Eve, 1883 — Chasseur — Beau Walmsley — 

 Harlequin — Kingston — Bob Chapman — Abigail — E. A. Ball — 

 Dynamite and Waterford — Lost in the Fog — Chance — The 

 Lord :\Iayor has a Day — F. Green — Blue Beard — Grafton— 

 Cub Hunting in 1884 — Hounds Staked — Mr, R. Parkes Breaks 

 his Arm — Bob Ball — Boycott — The Abridge Policeman — 

 Thornwood Gate — The Run of the Season — A Broken Back — 

 A Regular Trap ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 55 



Chapter IV. 

 Tyndale White— The Mahdi— Wesley Hunts the Hounds— Walking 

 the Plank — J. Perry Watlington — Lord Onslow — Cub Hunting 

 in 1885— A Wet Season — Early Hours — Mliss — Sparrow 

 Hawks — Israel's — Latchmore Banks — Takeley Forest — Dun- 

 mow High Woods — The Knights and Dames of Matching 

 Green — A. Caldecott — Blind Fences — Hounds Staked — The 

 Blue Peter — Unhorsing Sir Henry's Carriage — Blue Gates — 

 Over the Saw Pit — Skating and Hunting — The Close of Sir 

 Henry's Mastership — Bill Richmond— Lady Betty — A Broken 

 Arm — Snow and Frost — White Roothing — The Friar Shuts Up 

 — Bosphorus — Afternoon Runs — Red Tunics — The Great Run 

 from Toot Hill— A Sly Trick 99 



