64 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



Captain White (the Master), Messrs. C. A. 

 Tabor, S. S. Baker, Drs. Marshall, Bourne, 

 R.A., Messrs. Gale, Offin, Webster, F. M. 

 Baker, May, Ventris, Hardy, Watts, Dixey, 

 Miss Tawke and lots more (pardon me not 

 remembering their names). 



About 11.30 the hounds were thrown into 

 Potash Wood, where we quickly found a grand 

 fox, known by the name of the " old customer," 

 owing to his having afforded us some capital 

 runs on previous occasions, but always evaded 

 his pursuers when nearly " done " close to where 

 he was found. This time, however, he had 

 rather a hard time of it, for, breaking away to 

 the south towards Rochford, he took us at a 

 good pace for Rochford Hall; before getting 

 actually up to the buildings of that historical 

 mansion, he turned to the right over the Hall 

 Road by Leicester Mead, and pointing for 

 Westbarrow Hall, running round the farm 

 buildings, he pointed for Cherry Tree Farm, 

 and so on to Mr. Fred Stallibrass's over the 

 brook, and through Mr. Cotton's grove, from 

 there on to Potash Wood, thus making a com- 

 plete circle. Our first real check here took 

 place, as he had gained five or ten minutes by 

 running some spinneys, but, making a capital 

 cast, Captain White made his ground good all 

 round this fifty acre wood and discovered that 

 our customer had quietly laid himself down 

 close to where he was found. The hounds soon 

 hunted up to him, although the rain was coming 

 down and the wind blowing " great guns." A 

 tally on the Lawn side set us all on the go again, 



