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certain to be one of the odd twenty to be found at the finish 

 as he is to be dormy one if you take him on for a round of 

 eighteen holes on the Epping, Harlow or Eltham Golf Links. 



Few of those huntino- with the Essex Hounds the last few 

 years who have not at some time or other been partakers of 

 Mr. Lyall's hospitality. 



Solomon 



They say that a roan horse with black points is generally a 

 good one ; certain it is that the roan horse here depicted, a 

 favourite hunter of Mr. R. Cunliffe-Smith's, conformed to 

 the rule, in spite of his having a temper of his own ; for 

 six seasons he carried his owner without mistake or refusal. 

 He was a brilliant timber jumper, and I well recollect Mr. 

 Cunliffe-Smith pounding the whole of the Essex field over a 

 high gate ofT the green at Galley Hill on one occasion. 



How WE Killed the Colonel's Fox in the Piickcridge Country. 



Few of the morning field who had met at Passingford Bridge on 

 Monday, February 15th, and had seen a leash of foxes dispersed from Sir 

 Charles Smith's Osiers, and a leash put out of Curtis Mill Green (one of 

 which had given a very pretty ten minutes to Stapleford Hall), had turned 

 homewards before we reached Colonel Lockwood's coverts about 2 p.m. 

 The following were certainly there : — the Master, Mr. Arkwright, sans 

 secretaries, Mr. Avila, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Ball (Frank riding his new horse 



