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among the wild overgrowth of ivy, they found five or six 

 fresh " kennels." Every one present quickly entered into the 

 "spirit of the hounds," and promptly hauled them up the 

 buttress, when three or four couple were in an instant in full 

 cry on the chancel roof. " There," adds Daniel, " this extra- 

 ordinary Fox was compelled to surrender up his life without 

 benefit of clergy" an event which he commemorates by 

 printing a poem written by a Mr. William Pearce. 



In that popular book The Essex Hunt, by Messrs. R. F. 

 Ball and Tresham Gilbey (London, 1896, 4to), many notable 

 runs with hounds in Essex are described. One or two of 

 these may be briefly alluded to. 



On February I9th, 1863, shortly before the resignation of 

 the veteran master, Mr. Joseph Arkwright, a late-found Fox 

 from Curtis Mill Green, near Navestock, ran through Pyrgo, 

 the Havering Woods, over Upminster Common, and towards 

 Dagenham. Before reaching this place, however, he turned 

 and made for Hainault Forest, and again changing his mind, 

 he dodged back, and headed towards the Bower Wood, at 

 Havering, where he was killed after a splendid run of three 

 hours and seven minutes, covering a distance of not less than 

 twenty-four miles (pp. tit., p. 141). A run of quite a different 

 character is described by Mr. Ball (op. tit., p. 174). A 

 Fox found in Parndon Wood, near Harlow, on Saturday, 

 March I2th, 1881, ran towards Nettleswell and Cheshunt, 

 then back through Galley Hills and Deer Park, on to Nazing 

 Common, and so, returning to Parndon Wood, he went to 

 ground in his old lair. He was dug out and killed after a 

 fast run of one hour and forty-five minutes, with no check of 

 more than three minutes. The find being very quick, only 

 seven got away. Another wonderful run of three hours oc- 

 curred on November 24th, 1890, from Kelvedon Hall 

 Wood, the Fox being killed in Brentwood High Street. 



