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Roothings and north country generally. Dobson was still 

 Mr. Arkwrisfht's riwht hand man, but at the close of the 

 season 1878-9, the master's health was more indifferent 

 than it had been ; he became less and less able to stand the 

 fatigue entailed by long drives, and at the close of the 

 season he resigned the mastership of the hunt. 



During the last year or two of Mr. L. W. Arkwright's 

 mastership Dobson often resigned the horn to his brilliant 

 first whip Dick Yeo, who hunted the hounds through 

 several good runs. One of the best of these was from 

 Takeley Forest, whence the fo.x ran to Barrington Hall 

 and back to the Forest. Under Yeo's guidance, the pack 

 succeeded in driving him northwards into the Friday 

 country, and ultimately marked him to ground in Barnston 

 Churchyard. Of a large field only about twelve or fifteen 

 were present at the finish. 



Amongst the followers of the Essex Hounds during 

 the masterships of the Arkwrights, there was no keener 

 sportsman than Anthony Trollope. In 1859, while 

 very hard at work at his novel " Framley Parsonage," a 

 change of his position in the Post Office enabled him to re- 



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move from Ireland to a residence about twelve miles from 

 London, in Hertfordshire, but on the borders both of Essex 

 and Middlesex, which was called — in his opinion somewhat 



