CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



My first mount My first sight of " colours " Two turf yarns 

 Sir George Chetwynd and the sneak- thief "The Mate " holds 

 his own " The Boys " at Buntingford i 



CHAPTER II 



Death of my beloved father My inheritance Edward William 

 Jaquet Fidus Achates Our menage at Twickenham My 

 first real race meeting My canine shadow Ted and I marry 

 two sisters j a double wedding My first racing pony and a 

 bad start at Hurlingham Jesse Winfield sets me on the right 

 track A fine average The peerless Catena An Irish excur- 

 sion "Rough stuff" which misfired 12 



CHAPTER III 



'' Be thou pure as ice and chaste as snow, thou shalt not escape 

 calumny " Etna the double of Catena The Usher, a rusher ! 

 An oversight leads to legal action Lord Finlay of Nairn and 

 Lord Russell of Killowen The National Pony and Galloway 

 Club Harry de Windt Innocence invites suspicion Ted's 

 tits Virtue its own reward " Charlie " Beresford " Harry " 

 Bentley A trial and its sequel Some conspicuous riders . . 28 



CHAPTER IV 



We establish ourselves at Missenden Abbey A scratch pack I 

 inaugurate the Missenden Harriers The Belhus hunters 

 Yeoman and Melbury A strange coincidence I absorb the 

 Hambleden Vale Harriers William Snaith and the Cripps' 

 family The ethics of stag-hunting The wild and the carted 

 stag A kill in the open " He laughs best who laughs last ! " 

 First words about "Roddy " Owen ...... 46 



