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THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



The late Mr. H. H. Elder, whose presence for many years 

 enlivened the Essex hunting field, was fond of telling- 

 how old Joe Reeve once asked a clergyman to refuse the 



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The Sun and Whalebone. 



most sacred rite of the Church to a female parishoner on 

 the ground that she had killed a fox ! 



At this period the Essex fields were reinforced by 



