TOM MASHITER. I4I 



all Teddy Boards, of Edmonton. The " Londoners " 

 proved hospitable hosts ; and their invitations were 

 extended to many an Essex man, particularly Tom 

 Mashiter, who was about the hardest man of all 

 who threw in their lot with the Essex Hounds in the 

 "fifties" and "sixties." He used to dress himself after 

 the conventional portrait of John Bull, and was indeed 

 a merry soul. On one occasion, when the hounds met 

 at Goldings, the worthy Tom refreshed himself with 

 good old ale, with which he was imprudent enough to 

 mix a iu7nblerful of curacoa. Thus primed he dis- 

 mounted at the tree which then stood on the mound at 

 the top of Ongar Park Wood, and no amount of ex- 

 hortation would induce him to leave the tree. He 

 propped himself against it, and in answer to all entreaty 

 declared that as he had known the tree well for 

 twenty years he was not going to let it fall then ! 



We close our account of the mastership of Mr. Joseph 

 Arkwright with the following graphic account of a day 

 (February 19th) during the season 1862-3, written by 

 Colonel Howard, of Goldings, who was with the hounds 

 from find to finish : — 



"The meet was at Kelvedon Common, and punctually 

 at eleven our septuagenarian master gave the word and off 



