344 * THE ESSEX FOXHOUNDS. 



Newman had anything to do with the request, as he always has 

 behaved to me in the most kind and sportsmanHke manner possible, 

 and I hope I have done the same in return towards him. I kept 

 hounds Jirst, and I have given up several of my coverts as neutral 

 coverts. All the Green Dragon Woods were mine, Lion Hall and the 

 coverts opposite Mr. Tufnell's house at Langleys, which I gave up to 

 him, and which he could not have taken from me. If I cannot be 

 certain of some country being quiet when I come down to Dunmow, 

 what a bore it is to come so far and draw blank ! Twice this year we 

 met at Thaxted and Sampford to draw Hempstead, and when we 

 came I heard the other hounds had run all over Hempstead Wood, 

 and so [it was] no use to go there, and what would be the consequence 

 if Newman hunted Foxes and Boxted ? Why, in all probability [lie 

 ze'oiild] run to Big Woods and Marks, so that when we came down we 

 should not know where to go as a certain Jind. 



I really thought when Panfield was given up as neutral that you 

 and all your neighbourhood would be satisfied. I wish I knew who 

 these complaining neighbours of yours are — doubtless some of them 

 have double faces ; when I come I only hear complaints of the other 

 hounds disturbing my country, and then they say there are people 

 want to kick me out to get the other hounds in. Who in the world 

 is it that finds fault with you for preserving foxes ? The fellow, 

 whoever he is, cannot be fond of hunting, and only can pretend to be 

 so. I am placed in a very awkward situation : on the one hand 1 am 

 to have my country disturbed by another pack, or I am to have the 

 only person who really preserves foxes give up the preservation. I 

 hope still to be able to satisfy your neighbours by coming more 

 frequently, and perhaps you will give us one more year of trial, for 

 such a season as this and last was never known to the oldest fox- 

 hunter. — Truly yours and obliged, 



H. J. C, 



I am very sorry you should be at the expense of an action. I 

 think Newman's people ought to pay half and our people the other 

 half of any expense that may arise from the preservation of foxes. 



