Gaynes Park 



CHAPTER XI. 



Gayiics Park — The Romford Vale — Mr. Frank Ball to tlie Rescue — Gamecock — 

 Boiuer Wood — Badger Digging — IF. H. Pcmbcrton-Barnes — Clayhnvy Wood 

 — Easter Monday, '96 — The Wire- Haired Terrier — Barking Side — White- 

 chapel — Norton Heath — What Sport ? — A Good Run in a Gale of Wind — 

 Braunston Gorse — The Charm of the Midlands — Back Again — Lords Wood — 

 In Spite of Fog — Ball Hill Woods — The Army and Navy — Cheating the 

 Frost — Nearly Too Late — Sir Charles Smith's Coverts — Short but Sii'eet— 

 Another Vieii> of the Beachetts — Fox Hunting Statistics — The Advantages of 

 the Game — A Conditioning Day — Little Laver Mill — Willingale Spain and 

 Willingale Doe—Capt. C. D. Bruce—Roy— Capt. G. M. Tufnell—E. 

 Tufnell — A Trappy Double — Sleigh Bells—Havering Park — -Edward Barclay 

 — Grey stoke — Lucky Fridays — M. Tosctti — Tlic Martyr. 



DO you like a damp, misty morning- for hunting, with a 

 warm southerly wind ? 



Do vou like a hearty welcome 

 meet ^ 



Do you like a small field, forty al 

 women ? 



Do you like to witness that increasing- years 

 locks are not synonymous with failing nerves? 



Do you like a screaming forty minutes on the grass, over 

 bank, ditch, and rail, to the piping notes of the lady pack of 

 the Essex Hounds ? 



Do you like to go home with hounds at 2 p.m., when a 

 generous horse has had enough, and before the glow of a 

 vivid gallop has had time to grow dull ? 



All this, and more, you might have had on the mid Eriday 

 of the month of December, in the year of grace, 1894, if your 

 lucky star was in the ascendant. 



when you arrive at the 

 told, keen men and fair 

 and silvery 



