3885] MR. E. A. J. MAYNARD. 125 



1885-1886. 



In this year, the name of " E. A. J. Maynard," of 

 cricketing repute, appears in the subscription list. He 

 played for Harrow, and also for Derbyshire, and is a 

 good all round sportsman. That he ought to know 

 something about huntinof is certain, for the love of it is in 

 the blood. His father was to the fore with the Meynell 

 as far back as the forties, and hunted with his pack of 

 harriers what was then a wild country round Chesterfield 

 and Clay Cross, whilst his uncle, of Horlsey Hall, York- 

 shire, hunted what is now the Hurworth district. His 

 son, again an Anthony, was for many years Master of the 

 North Durham ; but it is another Anthony, of shorthorn 

 renown, uncle to the last-named, who is best known to 

 fame, having been immortalized by "The Druid" in 

 " Saddle and Sirloin." " For twenty years," the latter 

 tells us, " he kept the Boro' Bridge Harriers, and showed 

 excellent sport. The Raby country then extended as far 

 as Boro' Bridge, and the duke always charged him, '//" 

 you find an outlying fox do your best to handle him before 

 he reaches a cover' He hunted both with the Bedale 

 -and the Raby, and when either of the Masters appealed 

 to him at a check, ' Which way, Anthony f ' the general 

 reply was, ' Overo'idden by those young officers — cast behind 

 them.' On hunting days he was up at five, and rode 

 over his six hundred acres ])efore breakfast, and then 

 fifteen or sixteen miles to covert ; and no man told better 

 Yorkshire hunting tales over a bottle of '20 port." 



What an example to our modern youths, with their 

 fast trotters and indiarubber tyres, and breakfast so late 

 that nothing under twelve miles an hour can get them 

 to covert in time. The late Mr. Hamar Bass, with his 

 galloping pair and brougham swaying about behind it, 

 must have almost established a record in this respect. 

 He would leave Byrkley Lodge at nine-thirty, to get to 

 Ednaston — thirteen miles as the crow flies, and a bad 



