78 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



discipline, and have now this further warning 

 to add. I know what you and your friends 

 are intending, and shall expel every one 

 who rides and every one who looks on. For 

 this purpose, I will* have the roads strictly 

 watched." Needless to say no steeple-chase 

 came off, and none was ever attempted 

 again. 



A few weeks later, there was a Grand 

 National Steeple-chase at Dunchurch, with 

 which, except as spectators, the Rugby boys 

 had nothing to do. How did Dr. Arnold, 

 the "master-prig" of the Scottish calumni- 

 ator, deal with this untimely incident ? It 

 will be observed from the following letter 

 written by Arthur Hugh Clough to Arthur 

 Penrhyn Stanley, subsequently Dean of West- 

 minster, that the version given in it differs 

 slightly from that of "The Druid." Clough 

 writes : — 



" I went with Arnold's two youngest sons 

 to a grand steeple-chase which took place 

 near Dunchurch. The Doctor very wisely 

 and indulgently altered the hour of calling 

 over, and took off the Dunchurch prohibi- 

 tion for the day, so at least nine-tenths of 



