HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 29 



with the parting words, " I have seen many a 

 fox die and they ahvays die mute. I am not 

 going to throw my tongue because my time has 

 come." 



He was a grand specimen of a sportsman 

 and a gentleman. 



On March 30th, 1881, a party of us went 

 to Champion Lodge Steeplechases. Had the 

 pleasure of seeing Captain White win on 

 Tommy Dodd. 



I enjoyed many of the following runs, but 

 my knowledge of the country was so slight, and 

 my education far from complete as to names of 

 coverts, for many of the accounts I have been 

 obliged to rely on cuttings from The Field, or 

 to the assistance of old friends. 



Saturday, November 2yth, iSy^. 



Meet: Stock Street. 



I have to thank Mr. Mashiter for the 

 following records. 



Found in the Forest and had a pretty 

 thirty-five minutes, to ground in Norsey, fox 

 going by way of Brett's cover, Lillystone, and 

 as if for Mill Hill, but turning left-handed, ran 

 him across to Norsey. Found again in Temple 

 Grove, ran him up to Galleywood race course, 

 where he turned back and through Temple 

 Grove again, smartly, from here they stuck for 

 forty minutes to their fox and killed him down in 

 the open near Runwell Hall, going through 

 Horndon on the way. A perfect fifty minutes 

 from find to finish, hounds never assisted at all, 



