CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



PAGE 



Back to pony racing — A home meeting — "Bunny" Leigh — 

 " Gratty " Blagrave and Charlie A'Court (Col. Repington) — 

 Missenden trout : a three-pounder — A glorious evening's 

 sport — The Misburn dries up — Chequers Court — A prepos- 

 terous claim that failed — Vale ! Missenden Abbey and the 

 M. & H.V.H.— The O.B.H. East and West—" Uncle Punch " 

 — I am offered the Mastership of the whole country — Lord 

 Lonsdale, a friend in need — The " Gay Gordons " — Mr. 

 Chaplin lends me the Blankney pack ..... 64 



CHAPTER VI 



Cubbing — My Curraghmore bitches — Blanche, Lady Waterford — 

 "Dear old Bricket " — Tom Firr — "A bad huntsman cannot 

 make a good pack " — Lord Chesham — A cabal — Bob Webber — 

 Fishing in the Chess — The Drakes of Shardeloes — " Mr. Ekard " 

 — A close contest ...... . . . 'j6 



CHAPTER VII 



Outlying foxes — Peter Chutterbuck — Stanmore Common^ — A by-day 

 and the run of my life — Brother Irwin " gets the wind up " — 

 All my eye — " For it ! " — A general meeting — Defeat of the 

 Committee — I am too magnanimous . . . . -91 



CHAPTER VIII 



Social strictures — The O.B.H. country again divided — "Mutey" 

 Drake — Pity the poor M.F.H. — The debacle : Hounds and 

 horses under the hammer — Samson and Trimmer — Rare old 

 Landsman, an ideal hound — A forgotten tragedy . . .100 



CHAPTER IX 



A* rash wager — " AlFs well that ends well " — The huntsman hunted 

 — Happy days at Brigstock — " Rock " and " Tony ^ Burghersh 

 — A hunting tour in the shires — The Fitzwilliam and Bache 

 Cunards — " Sugar Candy " — A duchess in embryo — The stone 

 walls of Blankney — Another " busman's holiday " — " A pushing 

 young particle " — Purblind and almost dislocated — Neck or 

 nothing !, . . .. , . . . . .110 



