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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



himself by getting to ground, and the old grey customer had to pay the 

 penalty exacted from all chicken robbers. Even the sherry and cake so 

 freely offered and plentifully partaken of hardly served to warm us as the 

 keen blast blew right through one after the hot gallop. 



Better known in the Essex hunting held under the above 

 title, Mr, E. Pelly is a real customer across country, and runs 

 Bailey close in the art of boring through a thick place. In 

 fact, the thicker the fence the better he and his black like it ; 

 they rarely part company, and may always be seen in the front. 

 "The Admiral's" early life was spent at sea (hence the sobri- 

 guef), and if you would learn how in 1 898 he chanced to have a 

 box of the choicest Manilla cheroots which had come into his 

 possession twenty years previous to the late Spanish-American 

 war, you must go to the fountain head. All I can say here is 

 that they were uncommonly good, and that the flavour was not 

 lost as he recited the story that accounted for their possession. 



Charles Bury 



The late Mr. Charles Bury lived on the Hertfordshire side 

 of the Essex country, but this never deterred him during the 



