A SHARP BURST FROM THE MOORS 



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Bentley Mill, and saw hounds thrown into the Moors, where they found 

 and went away at once. The short cut to hounds over a crumbling bank, 

 out of the road we were all standing in, was soon found by Mr. Waltham, 

 Messrs. Tyndale White (father and son) and Mr. Sheffield Neave accepting 

 his lead at once. Galloping down the side of the wood, as they jumped 

 into the road, they could see the heavy brigade charging down it. 



" A rare scent " said Mr. Green, as with united forces we took to the 

 country again ; no time, in fact, to pick or choose a fence as hounds raced 

 along in the direction of Dagenham — Harry Sworder on his grey and young 

 John White the two leaders. After going for some half-a-dozen fields 

 we were confronted by a wire fence, the only weak spot in it, a stiff stile. 

 All, with the exception of Mr. R. Bevan, who got over well on his grey, 

 turned aside over a fence to the right and another to the left, and then had 









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the brook in front of them ; some rails into the ploughed field just before 

 we came to the brook bringing a man down and further delaying those of 

 us who had got behind. A lady's hat coming off gave me personally plenty 

 of opportunity for scanning the brook, but not for catching hounds until 

 they checked in the next covert. 



Directly hounds left it we encountered another very funny fence. Two 

 feasible spots; one by a tree was indicated by Mr. Sworder, the other, a 

 stiff stile, by Mr. G. H, Lee, who was riding the silver-maned horse he 

 had recently purchased from Mr. R. B. Colvin. Without the slightest 

 check hounds flew along to Navestock Heath, very few anywhere near 

 them, except Mr. Ford Barclay, Mr. D. Grossman, Mr. Sworder and 

 Mr. Bevan. Running over Navestock Heath, we lost this fox near the 

 Kelvedon coverts below Bois Hall. Subsequently in Navestock we 

 picked up another, a very poor specimen of the wild fox, and killed him 

 on the far side of the Park. 



