148 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



" But to return to Saturday's doings. The meet was 

 at Willingale ; Spain's Wood, and some small coverts were 

 drawn blank, and we then trotted off to the osier bed 

 below Skreens Park. Here we found the animal at home, 

 and the hounds, after some delay owing to his being- 

 headed in the park, got away with him on fair terms, and 

 gave us an agreeable gallop of some twenty minutes, when 

 we lost him. Barnish was next drawn blank , but the 

 hounds were no sooner in at one end of the next covert. 

 Garnish Hall Springs, than a fox broke at the other, and 

 went away for Leaden at a rattling pace. Being headed 

 in his attempt to make Lord's Wood, he turned back to 

 Garnish, and thence to the left across the bottom, as if 

 High Easter was his point, but turning to the right, he 

 went over the hill to Mashbury, apparently with the inten- 

 rion of trying the earths by the brook. He altered his 

 mind, however, and turning again to the left he ran 

 through Bush Wood and on to Langleys Park. Here a 

 check of a minute or two brought up some of the strag- 

 glers, although the field of 160 with which we started was 

 o-reatly thinned, and many of the horses looked as if they 

 had already had quite enough. The hounds, however, 

 were keen, and quickly picking up the scent, they took his 

 line across the river near Langleys mill, and away for 



