30 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



and taking a beautiful line over the Hanning- 

 field's. 



Tuesday, February ist, i8y6. 



Meet: North Ockendon. 



Went to draw some hedgerows on Stur- 

 geon's Farm between South Ockendon and 

 Stifford. Put a fox off a hedgerow near South 

 Ockendon, who gave us one of the finest runs 

 ever seen in the Essex Union country — twenty 

 minutes racing from where we found him to 

 Franks, by way of Puddle Dock — from Franks, 

 and slower hunting, up to Warley Gap, going 

 through Codham Hall and Magpie Wood from 

 Warley Gap, through Hart's Woods, and across 

 Artichoke Common to Brockley Grove. From 

 here over the open (not touching Arnold's) into 

 the Essex country at Fitzwalters. Here, 

 getting on better terms with their fox, they sent 

 him along as if for Thoby, but turned back, ran 

 nearly to Mountnessing village and killed in the 

 open near Fitzwalters. 



Saturday y February 26th, i8j6. 



Meet : The Fortune of War. 



Found directly in Roper's Shaw, ran a ring 

 round by Basildon, back within a field of 

 Roper's Shaw, and then away through Leigh, 

 Chapel Combe Wood, Bushy Lees, Northlands 

 and Martin's Hole, sank the hill here and 

 crossed the railway, running very prettily down 

 to Corringham Village, and lost him between 

 there and Stanford, a good hunting run of one 



