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very strong on his grey in the front as hounds tore along for the big wood. 

 Breaking at the bottom end, he doubled back, and with hounds close at 

 him took his last turn, for as he reached the boundary fence of the large 

 wheat held they had him. Five-and-forty minutes of the best hunting I have 

 seen for many a day. Nobody moved away from the spot where the 

 fox was broken up for at least fifteen minutes (the surest indication of a 

 good run that exists) and pads were selling at about los. each. 



This fox was a traveller, and he knew the Colonel's coverts, and made 

 his point. Draw a line from Pyrgo Wood to Apes Grove, not a bad one, 

 and a very nice country if you like hairy, scrambling fences, with plenty of 

 them. A place one of Mr. F. Green's boys went over made me shudder; 

 it was the return journey by the brook before we reached the Havering 

 road. I can't think how he managed it ; the animal he was riding must 

 have been as clever as a cat, but he let him have his head and didn't hang 

 on by the reins — but even then I expected to see them both roll back 

 together. 



John Gurney Pelly and his hunter, "Snowstorm" 



Few better horses than " Snowstorm " ever looked through 

 a bridle in Essex. None required more care in the bridling, tor 

 anyone attempting it in the ordinary way would soon have 



