Warlies 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Siv Thomas Foicell Buxton, K.C.M.G. — Warlies — Netfesi.'ell X — The Weald 

 Brook — Latton Park to Matching Hall— The Mexborough Thoroughbred — 

 The Scarlet Jacket — The Evening Gallop from Man Wood — The Rector of 

 Abbess Roding — Marshall — A Tricky Fence — The ''Black Bull,]' Fyfield — 

 The Dido Brand — Nevill Dan/son — The " Green Man,'' HarloiD — Sticking 

 to Hounds — Reaping the Reward — A Riddle Unsolved— Black Mondays — 

 The Hunt Staff^CourtJield Wood — Conflicting Evidence — Casualties — Too 

 Late —Poplars. 



SIR THOMAS FOWELL HUXTON has never, I can 

 well imao-ine, hunted half as much as inclination would 

 have prompted him, for his life has been a very busy one, given 

 over to doing- something for the community at large, and cul- 

 minating in taking, at considerable personal sacrifice, the 

 Governorship of South Australia in 1895 ; but when he did 

 come out 'twas easy to see how his heart was in it, impossible 

 not to observe his plucky riding. Generally riding \ery fresh, 

 young horses (often without reputation for any cleverness), how 

 he sent them along! In truth he has inherited the pluck of 

 that ancestor who jumped off his horse to seize and hold a mad 

 dog that was about to attack a pedestrian. 



Warlies, his beautiful country seat in Essex, has alwaNs 

 been a favourite meet of the Harriers, and those who love a 

 gallop over the grass with flying fences never miss it or a 

 fox-hound fixture in that neighbourhood. 



