Hatfield Heath 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Cubbing in 1892 — C. E. Gveen — Charles Cratvley — The 

 Matching Green — Curtis Mill Green — Rose Hall— 

 the River — Home at 2.30 — Leisure Hour — Mr. 

 T. J. Mills— The Fagot-stick Fox—R. Waltham- 

 Farm — Cubbing in 1893 — Hard Ground — Farmers 

 — The First October Gallop — F. Green, jun., breaks 

 RundelVs Grove — Duchess comes to grief — H. J . 

 Sands — Dagnain Priory — Bedford's Chaffey Collin 

 White Roothing — Cedric — Collin's Leap. 



King William — A Foggv 

 -Navestock Church — Over 

 E. Barclay's Harriers — 

 — L ewis Ph illips — Maries 

 Complain of Small Fields 

 his arm — Harlow Park — 

 Price has a bad fall — ■/. 

 5 Run — Hatfield Toum — 



CUBBING commenced, September 17th, at 5.30 a.m., at Latton Park. 

 Harvest had pretty well come to an end, the ground was hard and 

 dry, but a large held, as usual, turned up at the opening meet, in- 

 cluding many on foot, S., with Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, participating in the 

 fun. Among those riding were the following: Mr. Arkwright, the Messrs. 

 Caldwell, C. E. and F. Green and his son, R. Bevan, W. and G. Sewell, 

 W. Buckmaster, MacEvans, who was staying with me for the meet, Mrs. 

 W. Sewell on the grey cob, Miss Hattie Tait, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, Mr. 

 Jones, Mrs. Waters, &c. 



Saturday, October 15th, Good Easter. A good beginning, too, it proved, 

 after a three weeks' absence from the field, for we had a most excellent day. 

 Sport briefly as follows : The meet at 9.30 necessitated leaving home 

 at 7, after an early breakfast. Some rumours of the expected presence 

 of the Prince of Wales at the meet caused perhaps a more numerous 

 throng than usual to turn out, and amongst those at the meet I noticed 

 Messrs. Usborne, Ball, E. and F. Price, Waters, Caldwells (2), Jones and 

 Miss Jones, many Christys, Hull and a lot of strangers. After killing a 

 short-running cub we got "away with a real good one from Boyton Springs, 

 and it was evident, as Bailey remarked as we crashed through a fence 

 together, that " there was a scent on the plough," for hounds ran hard and 



