CHAPTER XI. 



The Essex Union Country — Its Physical Charac- 

 teristics — Lord Petre and his Hunt Servants — 

 Division of the Country — Mr. Payne — Mr. 

 Scratton — Mr. Ward and Mr. James Parker — 

 Mr. Parker's Hunt Servants — Mr. Scratton's 

 Second Mastership — The South Essex and Mr. 

 Abraham Cawston — Mr. Arthur Cox — His Death 

 — Sir Thomas Lennard — C. Shepherd — Nimrod 

 Long— Mr. Offin— Mr. W. H. White— Dick Yeo 

 — Bayley — Captain Carnegv — Commander Kemble 

 — Testimonial to George Rae — Mr. Ashton — 

 Colonel Hornby — Landowners in the Essex 

 Union Country — Some Old Records — A Day 

 with Mr. Scratton — Good Runs. 



[^Contributed by " Ex-Sec."^^ 



In our school-days we were put through our facings in 

 geography by being asked to define the boundaries of a 

 country. Let us, therefore, commence this chapter with 



