Darnley 



CHAPTER \TI. 



Darnley — Architect — 5/;- Claud dc Crespigny — Hypatica—The Funkev — Mr. 

 Colviu's Golden Lady — Jachdaw — Totncs—Rosc of Devon — The River 

 Dart — J Good \Vin--Lord Alfred — Hop Bitters — 5;^. Deverenx — True 

 Love for Germany — Bryn — Verbena — A Bad Conveyance — A. J. Tzi'eed— 

 Woodside — 1 890-91, a Poor Season — W. Synies' Cnimpler — Snoiv Wreaths — 

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

 Let Well Alone— Workman— Henry Petre—A Mud Bath—Capt. Dn 

 Cane — Matching Green, 1891 — A Deal in the Hunting Field — Dr. Syntax— 

 Weston's Patent — Griffin's Wood — The Peel Family — D. Cuuliffc Smith — 

 The General Meeting — Mr. Green Resigns. 



Ml\. H. R. B. TWEED certainly chose a pretty name when 

 he assumed the historic one of " I)arnle\'," l^iit unHke 

 that luckless mortal, he has held it untarnished and covered it 

 with the laurels of the chase. Coming of a i^ood s])ortinn" stock, 

 his father, a parson, hein^" as fond of shooting- as a day's 

 hunting, Mr. Tweed was entered to hoimds at a very early 

 aoe, antl his is one of the few figures I can so vividly recall, 

 looking back through a vista of twenty \ ears, that used to 

 charge with such avidity the overgrown Roothing ditches in 

 brambly October. Wonderfully has he kept his nerve, and 

 great have been his successes between the flags in Essex 

 and other parts of the country, as we all know well. His 

 brother, too, Mr. A. J. Tweed, whose good hunter, "Wood- 

 side," accomjKuiies this sketch, has nin him close, and is 



