SUCKING PIG AT DUNMOW. II3 



eleven years old, and shall never forget it. It was the 

 worst night they ever had. I believe we were four hours 

 in getting home h^oni Dunmow ; a perfect hurricane 

 was blowinof. and we reached Marden Ash about eight 

 or nine o'clock at night. Mr. Westwood Chafy drove 

 behind the van and made Dan Berkshire, who had a 

 seat hung on at the back, show his bull's-eye lantern all 

 the way. We stopped at the King W^illiam for a glass 

 of hot brandy and water a- piece, and my hands were 

 so cold that 1 could not hold the glass ; I well remember 

 Treadwell helping me to hold it to my lips whilst 1 drank 

 the contents." 



On these expeditions to the North country, Treadwell 

 became "one of the family." A stranger who called for 

 dinner at the .Saracen's Head, in Dunmow, was asked 

 il he was a member ot the Essex Hunt, the reason of the 

 enquiry being that he was told Mr. Greaves andJ/r. Tread- 

 well were having a roast sucking pig upstairs, if he liked to 

 join them ! 



-Mr. Westwood Chafy, of Bowes, Ongar, to whom 

 Mr. George Greaves refers, was a well-known follower of 

 the Essex Hounds with Mr. Conyers and the Rev. Jose])h 

 Arkwright, as well as with Mr. Henley Greaves. Though 

 he was a very heavy man and a hard rider, his horses 



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