Hervey Foster 



CHAPTER II. 



llci'vcy Foster — Pilgrim — Major J . F . Foster — Katafclto — The Bold Trimmer — 

 Cnhs in Biishwood — Barmleys to Forest Hall— IV. Bambridgc — Disastrous 

 Days — General Mark Wood — A Big Jump — Empty Saddles — Col. Lockwood — 

 Bishop's Hall — Robert Lockivood — Fnar — Bull's-Eye — Watchman — The 

 Customers in 1873 — The Warren Fox — A Wet Season — Fidl Cry through 

 Walt ham Abbey — James Green — Across Country from Pavndon Hall — Who's 

 for Epping ? — Rolls Park — Col. S. Howard — Bob Ward — Hertfordshire 

 Woodlands — A riindel — Boy ton Cross. — Edivard Gibson — Screens — Matching 

 Green, 1883 — Roothing Ploughs — Multnm in Parvo — Phantom. 



HERVEY EOSTER will never be forgotten, not even 

 when the wail of the huntsman's horn awaking" the deep 

 echoes of Ongar Park and the surrounding- woodlands shall 

 have become a thing of the past, for he has left behind him 

 a sweet memory which, from father to son, will be handed 

 down to generations yet unborn. It could hardly be other- 

 wise, for he had a charm of manner and a gift of ingratiating 

 himself with all with whom he was brought in contact such as 

 few possess. A sportsman to the backbone, horn and bred 

 in PLssex, his high courage, courteous manner, and generous 

 nature made him the idol of the farmers and the dean iddal 

 of a Hunt Secretary : just as his fine riding, his quick dashing- 

 style, always taking a line of his own and that instantly, found 

 many imitators, but no rivals. Had he been spared to us, how 

 many point-to-points would he not have won, for with his 

 knowledge of pace and quick eye for a country he quite ex- 



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