154 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



field, after much galloping and jumping strike a road to 

 find the master's carriagre standincr there, and from him 

 came occasionally a hint as to the direction taken by the 

 fox. 



During the season 1868-9 good sport was enjoyed, the 

 best run being that of F'ebruary 20th, when a fox jumped 

 up outside Norwood and, after a prelimininary excursion to 

 Brick-kilns and back, made off again on the same line and 

 continued through Man Wood and Row Wood and away 

 to Hatfield Heath, where hounds ran into him after a 

 first-rate run of one hour and forty minutes. 



1869-70. This season opened disastrously, three 

 hounds being lost on the opening day through picking 

 up poisoned herrings in a small covert near Brick-kilns, 

 which has gone by the name of " Herring Grove " ever 

 since. Sport improved at the end of November, good 

 runs being obtained on the 26th, 27th, and 29th of that 

 month, and on January 5th, hounds ran an Old Park fo.x 

 for nearly an hour without entering a covert and with only 

 one check, and then changed outside Lord's Wood on to a 

 fresh fox which they ran for two hours to near Saling, in 

 the East Essex country. In this run many of the field led 

 their horses across a very narrow footbridge over the river 

 Chelmer. This is the last recorded run from the famous 

 "Old Park." 



