70 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



Hall and on to Fambridge ; found and ran up to 

 Norton Hall and threw up. Afterwards found 

 in Caming Wood, ran along the hill side east- 

 ward, bearing right by Norton Rectory, through 

 Wrights Leys to a drain by Norton Hall, going 

 a good pace over the grass and washed him out 

 from there, ran towards Kits Hill and down the 

 road into Fambridge Hall, out at the other end, 

 past the Rectory towards the Hall Farm, then a 

 ring round the marshes to the left, and to ground 

 on Kits Hill ; dug out and killed. 



Note. — I remember seeing the fox emerge 

 from Mr. Clarke's drain looking such a poor, 

 miserable, saturated little object — it took an 

 enormous amount of water to dislodge him, and 

 the drains must have been so well cleaned out 

 they could have required no more cleaning for 

 years. 



January 29th. Tuesday. Stock Ship. 



Dull, wet day, S.W. wind. Found in 

 Temple Grove and ran with a very poor scent 

 to Sir Hughes at Great Baddow, but could not 

 make anything more of it. Found again in 

 Long Wood, and had a very nice run of an hour, 

 good hunting through Cockshill Wood, on over 

 Crondon Park to the Forest, where we had a 

 slight check, then over the road to Fox-burrow 

 wood, through that and Stock Ship, over Galley 

 wood, and past Markham Barnards house, leav- 

 ing it on aur right, and on to the Beehive Farm 

 on the Baddow Road ; killed in the wood close 

 by. A very enjoyable day, although so wet. 



