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road, and was sold with the hounds in 1S44, being bought 

 by some Yorkshire master of staghounds. Mr. Neave 

 challenged them to take him the first time out ; they tried, 

 but he ran clean away from them, and was only taken a day 

 or so afterwards, owing to his having made a heavy meal of 

 turnips, and then he gave them fifteen miles without a 

 check, and was taken in the town of Rotherham. 



Once when meeting at Harlow, Mr. Neave's hounds 

 fell in with Mr. Conyers, when he at once shut up his own 

 pack and showed them the way, helping them all he could, 

 and then spent the remainder of the day in cursing the 

 whole lot; he hated them and did not mind tellino; them so. 



Mr. Neave kept the hounds at Myless and the deer at 

 the King William. When huntintj in the Roothino;s he 

 used as a rule to stay at Roxwell. 



When Mr. Neave gave up the hounds, he was pre- 

 sented with a very handsome piece of plate with the 

 following inscription : — " This piece of plate was presented 

 in grateful remembrance of his .spirited exertions in the 

 fiekl, and of the zeal and urbanity displayed by him as 

 Master of the Essex Staghounds, during twelve seasons 

 of singular harmony and unrivalled success in which he not 

 only secured the cordial support of the owners and occupiers 

 of the land, but acquired the lasting esteem and regard 

 of all. 



