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THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



The new master was a keen foxhunter, an excep- 

 tionally fine horseman, and a good judge of horse and 

 hound ; but his fame was possibly less known in Essex 



LOFTUS WiGRAM ARKWRIGHT. 



than in Leicestershire, in which county he had, of recent 

 years, done most of his hunting ; for, like some ot his 

 neighbours, he found it practically impossible to get on 



