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was not misplaced. She went away well towards Abbess 

 Roothino-, but was headed at the first fence to the left. 

 We ran at best pace by Barnish, Pepper's Green, and 

 Chalk End to the brook at Boy ton Springs — about five 

 miles, as we went, in some twenty-five minutes. Here we 

 found her in the brook, after a check of perhaps a couple 

 of minutes, and away again at a great pace, with hardly a 

 check to the end, to the right of Mashbury, by Fitzjohn's, 

 over Dunmow Lane, and then to Warner's Farm, Littley 

 Green and Hyde Wood ; over the brook by Little Leighs, 

 and to the left of St. Anne's Castle, where by this time the 

 field was very select. On by Moulsham, Halland Paul's and 

 Hazleton Woods nearly to Black Notley, and up to her in 

 the back-water of Bulford Mill. From this she went away 

 in view over the line beyond Bulford Station. There was 

 some delay in getting over the water and railway — hounds 

 all the time racing — but the master's chestnut, though dead 

 beat and blundering on to his nose at every fence, managed 

 to let him keep view of the tail hounds. Down the north 

 side of the line nearly to Cressing Temple, by Boar Stye 

 Green, round Storey's Wood close to F"elix Hall, and back 

 to the farm opposite Rivenhall Place, where the hind ran 

 into a barn and was secured." 



The last few miles thinned the field to half-a-dozen 



