CONTENTS 



E. Ethelston — The Break up of the Cireat Frost of '95 — The 

 Ice Carnival— Really good going, Sir !— W. Sims Horner — A 

 Root Ditch — Poles' Wood — One, Two, Three, over they come — 

 Jugged Hare at Sewald's Hall — The Influenza Cure— Bosley's 

 Fox— In or Over is Mr. Lobb's Motto — Fourteen all told— The 

 old Guard — Pyrgo Wood — Riding away from Hounds — Leonard 

 Pelly — The usual blank at Forest Hall — No Commoner, surely ! 

 — Splash of Rain— Brick Kilns again— Full cry from Man 

 Wood — Essex for ever — Diana to the front — Moor Hall — A. C. 

 Oldham — A Good Finish 



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Chapter XIII. 

 Bell House— The Essex Kennels, 1808— The Point to Point Races 

 at High Roding Bury — Pyrgo House— Luck in Horse Dealing 

 — G. Sewell — Duchess — A Wonderful Recovery — The Merry 

 Midlands— Crick Gorse— Scylla and Charybdis— Brooksby — 

 The Quorn Countrie— The Coplow — John o' Gaunt — Barnsleys 

 —Hunt Changes — E. E. Cockett — Northamptonshire Brooks- 

 Bailey's Plunge — Canes — The Sequel to a good Stag Run — 

 W. H. Sewell— Jack— Over the Iron Railings— The Hunt 

 Button — One of the worst frosts in the memory of man — A 

 Retrospect — Blooding our young Nimrods — Cubbing Notes in 

 '95 — Weston Crocker — Blizzard — True Blue — One fence in 

 October worth a dozen later — Roydon Park— In the Heart of 

 the Roothings — Garnetts — The Queen of the Hunt — A. R. 

 Steele— The Pleshey Tonic — A Bid Photo of a Good Horse — 

 Havering- Atte-Bower — Loughton Shaws — Bellows to Mend ... 386 



Chapter XIV. 

 Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, K.C.M.G. — Warhes — Netteswell X — 

 The Weald Brook— Latton Park to Matching Hall— The Mex- 

 borough Thoroughbred — The Scarlet Jacket — The Evening 

 Gallop from Man Wood — The Rector of Abbess Roding — 

 Marshall— A Tricky Fence— The " Black Bull," Fyfield— The 



Dido Brand — Nevill Dawson — The " Green Man," Harlow 



Sticking to Hounds— Reaping the Reward — A Riddle Unsolved 

 —Black Mondays--The Hunt Staff— Courtfield Wood— Con- 

 flicting Evidence — Casualties — Too Late — Poplars 415 



