CONTENTS 



Chapter \' 



Loftus Arkwright — A Fatal Thunderstorm — Wet October — 

 Matching Green, 1886 — James Duke Hill — Canfield Hart — The 

 Melton Doctor — Knight of Kars — T. Usborne — The Dunmow 

 Clothier — A Cat and Mustard-pot Day — Harlow Bush Common 

 — Dobbs Wood — The Skewbald Horse — St. Leonard's, Nasing 

 — William Sworder — Shalesmore — Xmas Eve, 1886 — A Long 

 Frost — Matching Green, 1887 — The Knight of the Black Cap — 

 The Great Stag Run on Xmas Eve, 1887 — Unrivalled Sport 

 — George Brown — Suart's Caress — Bye Days — Bentley Mill — 

 The Surrey Deer — F. Avila — Matching Green, 1888 — The Kind 

 Samaritan — Canfield Mount — The Kildare Flyer — The Stranger 

 Scores — Canfield Thrift — The Wake Arms — Penned in the 

 Warren — A Fence we don't get in Essex ... ... ... ... 130 



Chapter VL 

 Mark Hall— Loftus J. W. Arkwright— A Red Letter Day— Diana— 

 The Polo Pony succumbs — Harry Bagot — Vulpecide — A Pre- 

 mature Request — The Last Day in the Roothings — Newman 

 Sparrow — The Hart, The Mount, and The Thrift — How Henry 

 John got Home — Bye Days — The Prince of Wales at Easton 

 Lodge — A Blank Day — The Royals — Henry Vigne — Wm. 

 Hurrell — The Reptonian — Crawley's Advice — Row Wood — A 

 Clinker from Forest Hall — A Hard Day — Mr. Bevan's Horse 

 Dies — The Celery Hare — Mr. Vigne has the best run of half-a- 

 century — Quite Quiet — Engulfed — Merrylegs — The Run of the 

 Season — Harlow Park — Lieut. -Col. the Hon. W. H. Allsopp ... 164 



Chapter VH. 

 Darnley — Architect — Sir Claud de Crespigny — Hypatica — The 

 Funker — Mr. Colvin's Golden Lady — Jackdaw — Totnes — Rose 

 of Devon — The River Dart — A Good Win — Lord Alfred — Hop 

 Bitters — St. Devereux — True Love for Germany — Bryn — 

 Verbena — A Bad Conveyance — A. J. Tweed — Woodside — 

 1890-91, a Poor Season — W. Symes' Grumpier — Snow Wreaths 

 — The Queen of the Valley — W. Morris — Ed. Neave — The 

 Merry Fiddlers — Let Well Alone — \\'orkman — Henry Petre — 

 A Mud Bath — Capt. Du Cane — Matching Green, iSgi — A Deal 

 in the Hunting Field — Dr. Syntax — Weston's Patent — Griffin's 

 Wood — The Peel Family — D. Cunliffe Smith — The General 

 Meeting — Mr. Green Resigns ... ... ... ... ... 194 



Chapter VHP 

 Cubbing in 1892 — C. E. Green — Charles Crawley — The King 

 William — A Foggy Matching Green — Curtis Mill Green — Rose 

 Hall — Navestock Church — Over the River — Home at 2.30 — 

 Leisure Hour — Mr. E. Barclay's Harriers — T. J. Mills — The 

 Fagot-stick Fox — R. Waltham — Lewis Phillips — Maries Farm 

 — Cubbing in 1893 — Hard Ground — Farmers Complain of 

 Small Fields — The First October Gallop — F. Green, jun., 

 breaks his arm — Harlow Park — Rundell's Grove — Duchess 

 comes to Grief — H. J. Price has a Bad Fall — J. Sands — 

 Dagnam Priory — Bedford's Chaffey Collin's Run — Hatfield 

 Town — White Roothing — Cedric — Collin's Leap ... ... 227 



