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for a time, but one bitch, Active, stuck to the real fox, 

 and after two or three fields I saw her turn him over 

 in the middle of a big ploughed field, when they had 

 several stand up fights, the fox too beat to get away, 

 and the bitch not strong enough to kill him, till the rest 

 of the pack, who were at last got back on the real line, 

 came to help her. In this run, the river, which was 

 swollen, had to be crossed, and whilst several got in, 

 Bailey and Fred Green swam it gallantly, and kept well 

 with the hounds. 



"At the hunt meeting on March ist this year, I 

 was again elected master." 



Mr. R. C. Ball again tells in his diarv, as he did 

 three years earlier, of good sport following the annual 

 meeting : — 



" 1884. March ist, Saturday. Meeting Day. 

 Found in Latton Park, ran down to Epping Road, then 

 back to Epping Long Green, across Nazing Common 

 and Park, round to Parndon, by Mr. Todhunter's, on to 

 Tyler's Cross ; then back to Bay's Grove, and up 

 Harlow Common to Latton, where we killed, after a 

 clinkine run of one hour and thirty-five minutes." 



A few days later the career of a grand old fox 

 was brought to a close. Bailey writes : — 



