CURTIS MILL GREEN. 2O9 



the Storm, and were rewarded with a short run. Later in 

 the da\- it was arrano-ed, at an adjourned hunt meeting, 

 that the country should lie hunted duriuL!' the followinsf 

 season by a Committee, with Mr. Green as field master. 



1892-3. Thecubhunting season was a very good one. 

 An unpleasant incident was an alarm of poison in Black- 

 more High Woods on October "th. Ne.xt morning there 

 was a remarkable scent at Pleshey. Two and a-half brace 

 of cubs, and an old fox, were brought to hand in a short 

 morning's work. On the opening day hounds ran well for 

 an hour from Down Hall, but thick fog threw out many of 

 the field. During the winter hounds were often stopped 

 by frost ; and in the spring, dry weather brought hunting 

 to an early close. 



A red-letter day was January 30th. A local paper 

 reports that, after a run from Bishop's Hall, hounds pro- 

 ceeded to draw Curtis Mill Green, a sure find this season. 

 Two fo.xes, almost at once, went away in the .same direc- 

 tion, and the hounds, settling to one, raced him towards 

 Dutlbrook, where he leant to the left, and ran through the 

 Navestock coverts, the hcainds close at his brush. Over 

 the river Roding, or rather through it, they drove without 

 dwelling a moment. Here a very straight rider, and one 

 who sees more than most of a run, for his courage is 



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