HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 35 



" If Bailey had been a parson instead of a 

 huntsman, by now he would have become 

 Archbishop of Canterbury," and as this remark 

 came from a gentleman of the cloth, and one of 

 no mean order, that must have been a proud 

 moment for Bailey — showing the high estate he 

 had attained in his profession. He is another 

 example of what I have so often remarked on 

 before, that Essex people keep going for an 

 extraordinary length of time. 



December ist. Thursday. 



East Hanningfield. 



Dull day and wet. Got on to the line of 

 a fox in a field onjeo Crack's Farm, which took 

 us down to the brook, up the hill at the back of 

 Rasch's house, through Danbury Park, over 

 Lingwood Common, and through Lingwood, 

 where we had a check after a very good twenty- 

 six minutes, the fox having been headed in the 

 road, back on to the Common, then through a 

 corner of Mr. Water's Common, then through 

 Summers Wood, Ratcliffs Grove, and into the 

 Thrift, when we ran to ground after a good hour 

 and three minutes. Found again in the Hydes, 

 ran through the Thrift, along the top of Barrit's 

 Farm to Wood Corner Grove, and oh to the 

 Schools at Maldon, checked in some gardens 

 there, then ran back and killed at the back of 

 Maldon Hall, time forty seven minutes. ' I 

 managed to jump into a pond in the first run. 



