Il8 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



met with oreat difficulties. We have already alluded to 

 what beset him in the former countries, and in Warwickshire 

 a combination of unforeseen circumstances tended to seri- 

 ously discount the success which would in ordinary course 

 have been his. Mr. Greaves succeeded Mr. Spencer Lucy 

 in 1858, but his three years' rule was not marked by any 

 great sport, though he had for huntsman George Wells, a 

 first-class man in all respects. There was, however, one 

 little incident which served to enliven the three years' 

 dulness. 



No greater obstruction than the Queen's highway 

 divided the countries of the Heythrop and the Warwick- 

 shire ; and it chanced that during a period of five and 

 twenty years the Warwickshire Hounds had never forced 

 a fox over the border and killed it in the Heythrop country. 

 Jem Hills was never tired of telling the Warwickshire 

 men that he would have the aforesaid boundary road 

 turfed at his own expense, "so that your Warwickshire 

 foxes shan't know where we begin." However, during 

 the Mastership of Mr. Henley Greaves the spell was 

 broken. The Warwickshire found a fox in the never- 

 failing Woolford Wood, ran him by Cornwell Park, 

 Boulter's Barn, and Sarsden, and killed him within earshot 

 of the Heythrop Kennels. The field jogged on to the 



