34 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



Farm, by the Ferry ; time twenty-one minutes. 

 Bolted him from there, and ran him for seven 

 or ei^ht minutes to the Hall Wood and lost. 

 The first part of the run was very good. Found 

 again in Mundon Furze, and had a slow hunting 

 run of about forty-five minutes to Wrights Leys. 

 Note. — Rochford Hundred saw the best of 

 it, including our general, Charles Tabor. 



November 19th. Saturday. Roxwell. 



Fine day, with a little rain during the 

 night. Did not find till we got to Langley's, 

 where we found a good fox, which took us right 

 into the East Essex country. First across the 

 Park, then to Lyons Hall, which we went 

 through without dwelling, and on to Sandy, 

 where there was a slight check. Up to this 

 point we had had a good twenty-four minutes 

 over a nice country. Then on through Scarlets 

 to Hazelton, where we lost our fox through 

 putting up several others. Time altogether, 

 fifty-seven minutes, the latter part slow hunting. 

 I then left to come home, as we were in the 

 middle of East Essex country, and the hounds 

 had at least eight miles to go back before 

 drawing again. 



This was one of the very few occasions on 

 which I have been out with the Essex Hounds, 

 and I very much enjoyed the capital run, and 

 appreciated the skill with which Bailey handled 

 his hounds. I have several times heard him 

 speak at the Puppy Judging Luncheons, and 

 on one occasion one of his fellow judges said, 



