GOOD RUNS. 93 



Woods at Dunmow over the cream of the Roothinos, when 

 the fox was pulled down ui a farm yard at High Laver. 



"The huntsman was drawing the High Woods from 

 the Dunmow Road up to the Park at Easton, and the 

 hounds divided, the larger portion of the pack coming away 

 at the bottom of the covert, without huntsman or whip, and 

 streaming away at once in the direction of Little Canfield. 

 Miss Reynolds, who was afterwards Mrs. Sullivan, Stalli- 

 brass, another man, whose name I forget, and myself were 

 lucky enough to get away with them, and we had a glorious 

 run alone with them all through, without the hounds being- 

 lifted or helped at all, till they pulled him down, a whip 

 being the first of the others to come up, about ten minutes 

 after the obsequies had been performed. Such a run is a 

 recollection for a life." 



About this time a famous " bob-tailed " fox gave 

 run after run from Row Wood, always taking the same 

 line by Man Wood, Brick-kilns, Moreton Wood, antl 

 Blake Hall into Ongar Park Wood, whence he contrived 

 to make his way in safety back to Row Wood, being 

 invariably lost near Bobbingworth Mill on the return 

 journey. His reputation was so great that men came 

 out on their l)est horses when it was known that- Row 

 Wood was to be drawn ; and, on i)articularly good 



