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bury, hounds pulling their fox down at Bradwell-on-Sea, a 

 seventeen mile point. We cannot help thinking this is . 

 about the only instance of a really good run from Danbury, 

 as during the last forty years no one can recall a long point 

 having been made from these woodlands. The run took 

 place the day before Mr. Ward's death. Coming down to 

 later days, we hear of two celebrated runs with the same fox 

 from Mill Hill, near Billericay, to Purfleet, where on the first 

 occasion the fox got to ground, but on the second attempt 

 they killed him just before reaching the earths. This was 

 a fourteen mile point, over a good, but most unusual, line 

 of country. Bulvan Fen was crossed eii route. During Mr. 

 Scratton's mastership there were two pre-eminently good 

 runs. The first was from Hadleigh Wood, the largest 

 covert in the hunt (near Southend), to Norsey W'ood, near 

 Billericay, hounds killing their fox one hundred yards in- 

 side the latter covert, but this was not discovered till the 

 next day, when Mr. Arthur I'etre. who was shootins: there, 

 found his dead body. At the moment of killing him a fresh 

 fox must have jumped up under the hounds' noses, for they 

 ran at score round the covert and were stopped, the hunts- 

 man being sure that it was a fresh fox. It was not till the 

 next day that the field knew that hounds had accounted 

 for their fox. The other noted run is thus described in 

 Bell's Life of December 28th, t86i : — 



