CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PACK 



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; 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 Catona — 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 Catona — 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 l" — 

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



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