" DAYLIGHT 45 



which are associated with the Saturday country, they are reserved for the 

 honours of a Tuesday meet. 



NoAv, the hind that was enlarged in the grass meadows at the back of 

 Bobbingworth Hall Farm (Mr. George Brown's), with ordinary luck, is 

 likely to show some very good sport in the future, for not only did she 

 evince the strongest dislike to being caught, going on again and again 

 when we thought she would be taken, but she showed no inclination 

 whatever to run the road, which latter proceeding, however much it 

 might have enhanced her value according to report in the eyes of a 

 M.S.H. over the border, would have found no favour with Mr. Sheffield 

 Neave. 



Ten minutes from the time of laying on the pack (ten couples) we were 

 down at the river below Nether Hall, Moreton, Mr. Tyndale White acting 

 as pioneer. Crossing it, she came back in full view, hounds close at her, 

 for the Blake Hall coverts, and, getting down again to the water, below 

 Water End Farm, crossed and recrossed before finally going away for 

 Forest Hall. We had been running just twentv minutes when she broke 

 back from the Osiers for Mr. Gibson's Farm. Crossing the Truant School- 

 road she shook off the hounds without any difficulty, bringing them to 

 their noses before we splashed through the river to the right of Water 

 End. Running past this farm she turned over the road, and in a few 

 minutes, after diving through the railway arch, we found ourselves in the 

 lane above Greensted Wood. Leaving this covert left-handed, she pointed 

 for Kettlebury Springs, but came along the meadows up to the Ongar 

 cricket ground, Miss Docwra, as she jumped into the road, having a near 

 shave of coming down — we had now been running fifty-five minutes, and 

 the four ladies (Mrs. Upton, Mrs. Frank Ball, Miss Jones, and Miss 

 Docwra) who had started with us were well up. 



The cream of the run as regards the riding part of it may be said to 

 have been over when we reached Ongar Town, for only those who were 

 super-keen to see the deer taken cared to follow Mr. Sheffield Neave in the 

 cold-blooded casts he made to accomplish it. But one man,* who had come 

 all the way from Glasgow, did not mean to be denied. He was riding one 

 of his father's best horses, and for him gardens, recreation grounds, rivers, 

 brick walls, and barbed wire had no terrors, and in at the take he meant 

 to be. No less keen and equally determined was a youngster! who has 

 developed into one of the keenest sportsmen in County Essex, and for 

 slipping off his horse to open an obstinate gate he earns the cake. Three 

 others complete the list, one of them,| the boldest gate-jumper in Essex, 

 his latest performance in that line being one on the swing, which brought 

 him and his horse down ; but merely remarking it would do the beggar 

 good, he gave him a couple more (not on the swing), immediately after- 

 wards, I should not mind backing my man for a pony, owners up, against 

 any other timber-smasher in the county. 



The honours, however, of the last twenty minutes of this most excellent 

 run of two hours certainly rested with " Daylight," who from Ongar Town 

 to Blake Hall unravelled the line and led up to the take. 



'* Long may the hound live so priceless in value 

 To point out the line when the pack are at fault. 

 With Daylight in front, we need scarcely remind you, 

 The sun must go down ere he comes to a halt." 



There were no lack of spectators or volunteers to assist at the take in the 



* Mr. F. Jones. (He volunteered for the front in '99.) 

 t Mr. John Tyndale White. (He also volunteered for the front in '99.) % ^^^- I^ocwra. 



