Il6 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



run of a fox, and he was, in addition, a brilliant horseman. 

 Never was the Essex country so bare of foxes as when he 

 left. In great woodlands he was at his best. During one 

 season in fifteen visits to the Blackmore High Woods he 

 succeeded in bringing to hand fourteen foxes. 



In spite of unfavourable and disheartening sur- 

 roundings, Mr. Henley Greaves held on until the close of 

 the season 1856-57, when he gave up the somewhat un- 

 equal contest in which he had for four years been engaged. 

 It was no small compliment to Mr. Greaves's judgment 

 that his huntsman and first whipper-in were both thought 

 good enough for Leicestershire. They entered the service 

 of Lord Stamford, who had the Ouorn, and as huntsman 

 to that famous pack John Treadwell showed brilliant 

 sport. The horses and hounds sold well at Myless, under 

 the hammer of Messrs. Tattersall. The horses numbered 

 twenty-two, and half of England's welter weights wanted 

 one or more of Mr. Greaves's big horses, which in some 

 cases sold for more than their prime cost after seeing ten 

 or twelve years' service ; but then, they were up to twenty 

 stone! The stud realised over ^2,000, and the hounds, 

 some of which were bought by Mr. Joseph Arkwright, 

 brought more than ^1,000, both sums being a pretty good 

 proof of the material with which Mr. Greaves hunted the 

 Essex country. 



