MR. CONVKRS AND ]KM MORGAN. ']'] 



Jem Morgan, like most other people who were 

 brought into contact with the Squire of Copt Hall, had 

 sundry experiences of Mr. Conyers's ungovernable temper. 

 On one occasion, when the hounds were in Takeley Forest, 

 Morgan in some way incurred the Squire's wrath, and was 

 treated to such a torrent of abuse that he dismounted then 

 and there and started to make his wa\- home on foot, 

 declaring that he would forthwith quit his master's service. 

 Mr. Conyers, however, was not long in perceiving that he 

 had made a donkey of himself, so riding after his ruffled, 

 yet slow travelling, huntsman, he overtook him, gave him a 

 sovereign, and induced him to return. To give the Squire 

 his due, he appears, at least in a certain proportion of cases, 

 to have been ready to apologise after one of his too 

 numerous hasty fits. One day, a well-known sportsman 

 had for his own amusement, with some hounds of his own, 

 laid a drag early in the morning, and as luck had it the 

 Essex Hounds came into the district later in the day. 

 Unfortunatelv thev hit on the line of the dray which they 

 ran with the greatest vigour, and "lor two miles,"' says our 

 informant, " Conyers rode after me uttering the most awful 

 imprecations, but later in the day he made a most com- 

 plete apology." 



By degrees master and man became accustomed to 



