HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 19 



One fine morning we had come to a check 

 on Langdon Hills, and were all standing outside 

 the School at the moment the children were 

 coming out for the dinner hour. At this 

 juncture the field were taking advantage of a 

 momentary pause in the proceedings, and out 

 came the sandwich cases. 



The children were very much interested in 

 watching us, and one boy bigger than the rest 

 remarked : " They have stopped to eat their 

 dinners." 



Tuesday, January 13th, 1880. 



Meet : Stifford. 



Found in Moor Hall Spring and had a very 

 pretty twenty minutes' gallop up to the Nightin- 

 gale's Nest by way of Running Water Wood, a 

 holloa back towards Fourteen Acre induced the 

 Master to go back there, where hounds were 

 soon running hard (not improbably the hunted 

 fox). Going away on the Aveley side they ran 

 back into and through Running Water Wood, 

 and away to Stubbers (a longish check here), 

 got on the line again, and then hounds set to 

 racing, sending their fox over the open country, 

 straight up to Cranham, never touching the 

 Cranham covers, crossing the road near 

 Cranham Rectory, the bitches ran him hard up 

 to Upminster Hall, a short check here, cast 

 them over the road and hit him off again, hounds 

 going on to the Hornchurch brook, crossed it as 

 if for Lea Gardens, but turned right-handed and 



