Parndon Hall 



CHAPTER V. 



Loftus Arliwvight — A Fatal Tliundcvstorm — Wet Odobev — Matching Green, 1886 — 

 James Duke Hill — Canficld Hart — The Melton Doctor — Kniglit of Kars — 

 T. Ushorne — The Diinmoiv Clothier— A Cat and Mustard-pot Day — Harlon' 

 Bush Common — Dobhs Wood — The Skewbald Horse — St. Leonard's, Nasing — 

 William Sivorder — 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 — Snarl's Caress— Bye Days — 

 Bentley Mill— The Surrey Deer—F. Avila—Matching Green, iSSS—The 

 Kind Samaritan — Canfi eld Mount — The Kildare Flyer — Tlie Stranger Scores — 

 Canjield Thrift — The Wake Arms— Penned in the Warren — A Fence we don't 

 get in Essex. 



T OFTUS W. ARKWRIGHT was a good deal better 

 JL/ known to the older members of the Hunt than to me, 

 tor I only knew him even if I look back 20 years, when he 

 was no lon<4"er able to ride, but he dearly liked to discuss 

 huntino- with anyone who was out, and had a wonderful knack 

 of seeing a run from his carriage. 



Well versed in all the difficulties that beset farming opera- 

 tions (for did he not, when living at Rundells, farm Maries Farm 

 himself?), he was a man after the farmer's own heart ; very little 

 grumbling was heard when he held the reins of office, but 

 very wide and sincere regret was expressed when he re- 

 lincjuished them. 



Owing to a domestic bereavement, ni3'liunting notes of the season '86-87, 

 which saw Mr. C. K. Green in charge as Field Master, were not com- 

 menced before October, when I find that on the i6th of that month, after 

 driving over with him to a y o'clock October meet at Good Easter, we had a 

 capital morning's sport, killing a fine cub in the open, and getting caught in 

 a tremendous storm afterwards. It was not so bad as the one by which we 

 were overtaken four days later, when the Master drove Mrs. Waters and 

 self over to a 10 o'clock meet at Hatfield Heath, when a poor fellow was 



