200 THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



man the latter was selling nuts at a railway station in 

 London. Such are the ups and downs of life ! 



No sooner was Mr. C. E. Green established in 

 the position of Field Master of the Essex Hunt than he 

 at once began to show capital sport. On the opening 

 day of his first season (1S86-7), the place of meeting 

 being, of course, Matching Green, a good run was brought 

 off from Row Wood. Notable sport, too, was chronicled 

 from Mrs. Mcintosh's rarse, near Havering;, on Novem- 

 ber 8th; while on the 17th of the same month, 

 hounds ran at their best from Takeley Forest. The 

 dawning of the new year brought with it to Bailey, the 

 huntsman, the satisfaction of handling the first fox he 

 ever got hold of in Blackmore High Woods ; while on 

 March 14th, after the Point-to-Point Races at Good 

 Easter, a fox, found in Lord's Wood, gave a good run 

 of an hour over the Roothings. In the course of this 

 capital gallop one young man was left right under his 

 horse, at the bottom of a deep Roothing ditch, bringing" 

 vividly before one's mind the words Whyte-Melville used 

 in the dedication of his book, " Riding Recollections." 

 He penned that most interesting work in memory of 

 the many happy hours he had spent on the back of a 

 generous hunter ; but he did not forget those anxious 



