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Leaden Wood, where they jumped him up dead beat and 

 killed him in covert. This was the finest run the writer 

 ever saw, and the noticeable features of it were that the 

 whole of it, l)arring the first haH' mile, was in the FLsse.x 

 countr\- (a terra incognita to tlie master and his staff), 

 and that the scent served so well as to enable hounds 

 to carry the line through the High Woods without 

 changing. The straightness of the run was also re- 

 markable. It was an eleven mile point straight. One 

 of the oldest members of the hunt, Mr. Madgwick 

 Davidson, who for years had hunted from London, had 

 a bad fall, and was never able to hunt again. Another 

 good run was from Puddle Dock to Bentley Mill, the 

 line being up to W'arley Hall Wood, turned left to Great 

 Warley \illage, across Boyles Court Park, and from 

 here to Rochett's, losing the fox at dark at the Moors, a 

 covert at Bentley. A large water ditch (a branch of the 

 unjumpable piece of water known as the Mar Dyke) 

 was jumped by about six of the field, the master getting 

 in, and a good part of the field lost a portion of the run. 

 Another memorable run was from Eastland Springs near 

 Herongate, running our fox by way of Dunton Hall 

 to near lUilvan, turned Iclt-handed up to Horndon-on- 

 ihe-Ilill village, and as it tor Fobbing, but turned up 



