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or Puckeridge Hounds. He has a great partiality for railway 

 fences, and is a great authority on the difference between 

 Essex and Warwickshire brooks, having sampled a good many 

 of both, and on one occasion, in addition to losing four or five 

 sovereigns, had a narrow squeak of being drowned in one of the 

 latter when staying with Lord Willoughby de Broke, the 

 Master of the Warwickshire Hounds. All regretted the serious 

 accident which kept so good a sportsman out of the saddle in 

 the season 1898-9. 





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Arthur Waters 



Arthur Waters is a very keen rider, and has had longer 

 hacks home than the majority of those who have followed 

 the Essex Hounds, for Saturday is generally his off day and 

 Saturday's meets are never very handy for the Southern 

 borders of our country. Mr. W'aters was Captain of the West 

 Essex Polo Club for a good many years and was a great 

 exponent of the galloping game. 



