HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 33 



Saturday, February 2^rd, i8y8. 



Meet : Wickford Castle. 



Found in one of Mr.T.Kemble's covers, and 

 after a quick thirty minutes round by Foxearth 

 Moor Gardens, killed him near South Hanning- 

 field Church. Found again in Well Wood, a 

 rare good fox, and had a splendid run (one hour 

 and ten minutes) to Danbury Park and killed 

 him going across to Moor Gardens, and through 

 Mr. Kemble's cover, turned sharp to left and 

 over a fine open country, leaving the " Plough 

 and Sail " on the left, and as if for the Glebe 

 Wood (but skirted it) and away to Danbury 

 Common, through it, and pulled him down in 

 the open close to the palings at Danbury Park. 

 The first half-hour racing. I never saw a yard 

 of it after they left the Runwell covers, as I got 

 a fall and lost a stirrup leather, and the time I 

 lost threw me out. Miss Helme out on " Bally- 

 haise " ; she rode well, and got the brush. 

 I remember this run as being first-rate. 



FIRE AT THORNDON HALL. 



The day after this great fire the Meet was 

 at Herongate, and Captain White, out of res- 

 pect to Lord and Lady Petre's feeHngs, decided 

 not to chance hounds running through the Park, 

 so we trotted right away to Stock ; but imagine 

 our feelings when we found, and the fox brought 

 us straight back through the Park, and past the 

 still smouldering mansion. It is a fact. But 



