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county or the neighbouring one of Hertfordshire at the head of affairs, we 

 have a guarantee that the interests of the Hunt are in the right hands. Mr. 

 Bowlby and Mr. Arkwright are in close touch with their own class, without 

 whose goodwill and co-operation hunting could not exist for a week ; and 

 are as closely linked by sympathy and experience with all who have to 

 contend against the gloomy times through which the agricultural com- 

 munity is passing. 



That brighter times may dawn for our best friends the farmers, and 

 that an early cub-hunting season will follow on the heels of a good harvest, 

 are thoughts which will find a ready echo in the hearts of Essex sportsmen. 



Howel J. Price 



Howe! J. Price can hold his own with the heavy or Ho-ht- 

 weights either across the Roothings or over the banks of the 

 Monday country, and is always ready to ride any horse in the 

 Point-to-Point races. He steered his own horse to victory in the 

 Welter Point-to-Point, which was run in the Theydon Mount 

 country in 1899, and ran a dead heat with the same horse in 

 the Bar Point-to-Point races of the same year. A good shot, 

 a keen supporter during its most flourishing decade of the 

 West Essex Polo Club, ancl an enthusiastic golfer, he has 



