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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



front, hounds hunting beautifully down to Gravel Lane below Tumour's, 

 which could not be reached without tackling Mr. Grossman's rails or the 

 corner Mr, Caldwell found for the huntsman. Nearly every horse that 

 followed made a blunder, as the rotten bank gave way ; and so over the 

 heavy rushy field and through Tumour's, where we had a beautiful piece of 

 hound work as they ran the length of the long plantation beyond it and 

 held a line through Chigwell, Mr. G. E. Green dropping into Pudding Lane 

 with the huntsman and giving him a lead out over the high bank and deep 

 drop on to the grass beyond, with hounds running for Roll's Park. "Left," 

 cried Mr. Waltham, and left it was, Mr. Green coming down and blocking 

 the way, while as we rose the hill we could spy no way through the black 

 bullfinch until Mr. Caldwell came to the rescue on Mr. Sands' good little 

 black, and so to the rails on Mrs. Philby's ground, Bailey trying to pull 

 one down, Mr. Caldwell lowering two others and recovering himself well 

 after he had discovered the outlet. 



Miss Majorie Sewell on "Vanity." 



Miss Winifred Sewell on " Coco ' 



Next a glimpse of two or three hounds at the white gate near the road, 

 a pedestrian with news of the fox just in front, the huntsman coming to the 

 holloa and hitting it off nearly opposite the Grammar School, crossing Mr. 

 Savill's farm and picking our way for some fifteen minutes over a very 

 intricate country the fox was pulled down eventually after some very 

 patient hunting in Mr. Puckeridge's grounds, within easy distance of Clay- 

 bury, the asylum in old days for Rolls Park foxes. It was jolly riding over 

 this old line, one which we had often ridden before barbed wire was in- 

 vented, if it was sad to reflect that this large slice of the Essex country was 

 virtually lost to us. 



_ The huntsman presented the brush to Miss Dorothy Sewell, who, in 

 spite of being pulled off at a high bullfinch, rode every yard of the line. 



