HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 33 



not one single house. Thorpe Bay has become 

 a town with a golf links, and is quite a flourish- 

 ing portion of the district of Southend. 



The following accounts have been suppHed 

 from the hunting diary of a sportsman who has 

 hunted with the Essex Union for many a 

 season, and only a short time back he reminded 

 me "there are only six of us remaining of the 

 150 to 200 who hunted in Captain White's 

 time." We six have seen the most extra- 

 ordinary changes. 



I have given the notes without adding 

 much to them, they so well describe the many 

 excellent runs of that period, and bring back 

 the whole thing so vividly to my mind that I am 

 afraid of spoiling them. There is much truth in 

 the saying of " too many cooks," and again " two 

 people cannot churn butter," and the few who 

 remember those good old days would not thank 

 me for altering the very excellent description 

 given. 



November 17th. Thursday. 



Stow Bullocks. 



Dull day and windy in the morning. Found 

 in Fambridge Hall, but the scent was so bad, 

 that we could do nothing. We then went to 

 Purleigh Round Bush, but on the way there got 

 on the line of a fox, which took us through the 

 Round Bush to Clarke's Wood, and on 

 through Fambridge Hall to a drain at Jarvis' 



