68 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



in Pantile, ran to Brook Mead, up to Norton 

 Hall, where the fox was headed and went back 

 by Wright's Leys to Norton Rectory, on to and 

 through The Grove, over the line to the Morris 

 Farm, and ran the road to Bashalts, then back 

 across a meadow towards Greens, and killed in 

 a hedgerow; time forty-five minutes. Then 

 went to Fambridge, and after a long turn in the 

 Court, ran up towards Chas. Clarke's and over 

 Kits Hill, where we lost in crossing a heavy 

 plough, so went on to Mundon, went away over 

 Meads Farm, over the brook towards the Stud 

 Farm, crossed the road between Jenkyns and 

 Maldon, on by a circular route to Hazeleigh 

 Hall, straight through the wood, and out over 

 our Mill Field a nd front meadow, through the 

 garden, then right across the farm up to Lloyds 

 fields, to Hazeleigh Common, where we bore to 

 the right to the Place, and on past Speakmans 

 to the Wilderness, and to Walter Rectory, where 

 we lost, scent failing after a good hunting run of 

 one hour and forty minutes, hounds and horses 

 having had quite enough. 



This was another excellent day, which I 

 thoroughly enjoyed. 



January 2nd, 1889, was a rare good hunting 

 day, and, taken as a whole, one of the best I 

 have seen. The scent was so good — one of 

 those days when hounds seem as if they must 

 keep on the line. The Meet was at South 

 Hanningfield, and the first fox was found in 

 Hondan. We ran over a beautiful line of country 

 to Woodham, and killed near Squeaking Gate. 



