8o HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



Wood, on to Misses Hole, Grays Wood and 

 Norsey, down by Gatwick, and again through 

 Grays Wood, where I left them as they were 

 not doing much, but the first part of the run was 

 fairly good. Garnegie had a fall, his horse 

 coming over backwards at an uphill jump, and 

 one man, a friend of Hapthams, broke his 

 horse's back — so it appeared at the time, but I 

 heard afterwards that it was a fit, and that the 

 horse got all right again. 



Note. — I saw Mr. Garnegie's horse in the 

 ditch just off the Grange Downham, from the 

 take-off side. Only the horse's ears were 

 visible. Besides being an uphill jump, with the 

 ditch — a very deep one — on the landing side, 

 and the bank level with the line, I always con- 

 sider it to be one of the nastiest fences in the 

 Essex Union country. Taken the other way 

 about, though a very deep drop, it is not nearly 

 so disagreeable. 



October, 1891. 



Few persons remember it is only by the 

 goodness of the farmers that we ride over the 

 land at all. And if the hunting world would 

 only recognise this fact and let it be seen by the 

 farmers that they do so, there would be less 

 friction. Personally I have always met with the 

 greatest courtesy, but then I think I may say I 

 have always felt the deep obligation we owe to 

 the farmers and landowners whose land we 

 cross, and I have often wondered how they put 

 up so patiently with crowds of persons tearing 



