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tance, I determined to chuck it up for the nonce, 

 reserving opinion as to the working of this good- 

 looking pack until a more favourable time. 



Finding myself in the vicinity of Navestock, 

 I availed myself of the opportunity of visiting some 

 old friends, whom I had not seen for the last forty- 

 five years, and after receiving a vast amount of 

 hospitality, and the heartiest of welcomes from Mr. 

 and Mrs. Hall, who are well-known and greatly 

 respected inhabitants of that quiet locality, I mounted 

 the objectionable grey, and had my revenge. When 

 homeward bound the wretch was manageable, and 

 before I reached Romford, it was a case of bellows 

 to mend with that fiend, who utterly spoiled my 

 contemplated day's pleasure with the Essex Fox- 

 hounds ; but le hon temps viendra, I hope, and I will 

 then, under more favourable circumstances, endea- 

 vour to faithfuUy chronicle their doings. 



