1 62 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



si'o-ht led him often to choose some good man to show 

 him the way. He was indifferent either to jumping on 

 anyone, or being jumped upon. When he and his son 

 Harry were out, it was good betting which would first 

 blunder on the top of the other. 



A mishap to Trollope one day, when the hounds 

 ran sharp across the Dagnam brook, is thus described 

 by the novelist's intimate friend. Colonel Howard : 

 " You could not get at the brook to fly it ; but I 

 thought I saw my way to get into the brook through 

 a little coppice. I jumped into the coppice safely ; but 

 they had been making a drain just inside the hedge, 

 and Trollope's horse put his feet into it, pitched Trollope 

 over his head, and he lay on his back with his head 

 close to the horse's front feet. In his first plunge to 

 get out he got half-way over Trollope, and we had great 

 difficulty in preventing him doing serious damage ; 

 however, I got off with a nasty cut on the forehead. 

 We took him up to Mr. John Sands, at the Priory. 

 Mr. Sands, who had only recendy come there, was but 

 little known ; but his kindness on this occasion was an 

 introduction, and he soon became one of us." 



On giving up Waltham House, Trollope travelled 

 round the world, and returned, in spite of any resolu- 



