A FASt THING WITH MR. QUARE S HARRIERS :^33 



Mr. H. Sworder, Mr. S. Fitch, Mr. F. Avila, Mr. G. Buxton, Miss T. and 

 Miss M. Buxton, Mr. Cockett, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Price, Mr. H. J. Miller, 

 Jack Miller, Mrs. Barron, Miss Savill, 'Sir. C. Savill, Miss Morgan and 

 others. 



It was quite a cubbing morning, quite a day for conditioning a horse, for 

 foxes were fairly numerous, and scent was at a discount. 



Did not hunt again before Wednesday, November i6th, which broke 

 very foggy ; in fact, looked too foggy for hunting. However, the sight of 

 some people hacking on and others driving to the meet at Nasing Common, 

 warned us (my friend, Rev. G. Ward Saunders, was staying with me) that 

 there was no time to be lost if we wished to see anything of the fun. 

 Dressing hastily we hacked by the Epping Bury fields and Harold's Park 

 straight for Galley Hills on the chance of nicking in. Saunders was riding 

 a cob which had carried Mr. Patchett the previous season ; I was on " Ber- 

 serker." Near Orange Wood we passed a large shooting party from Copped 

 Hall, and reached Galley Hills just as hounds were thrown in. Plunging 

 into the wood with the huntsman, the Master, Mr. Arkwright, Mr. and 

 Mrs. D. Crossman, and Ford Barclay, we were rewarded by seeing hounds 

 find at once. Making a bit of a circle in these woods, the fox broke the Deer 

 park end and ran straight through that covert and on to the Coppice, which 

 we reached in a fair state of lather, for it was a close muggy morning. 

 Breaking back again he ran straight back to Galley Hills, did another circle 

 in those woods, and came back by Deer Park, some leading hounds slipping 

 away after their fox nearly up to Copped Hall where they wefe stopped, the 

 coverts being closed to us owing to the shooting party. 



We finished the day by drawing Tattle Bushes blank, not before, 

 however, the cob had put his foot through his Reverence's best hat. 

 Willie Sewell turned up at the end of the day on his new chestnut. There 

 were a good many people out. I noted the following in addition to names 

 already mentioned : Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby, Mr. R. Y. Bevan, Mr. C. E. 

 Green, Mr. G. H. Lee, Mr. and Miss Peel, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Price, 

 Mr., Mrs. and Miss Waters, Miss Tait, Messrs. F. Ball, W. Crocker, F. 

 Green, S. Green, H. Sworder, F. Avila, R. S. Tilling, S. Fitch and 

 E. Hill. 



The foggy morning gave place to a bright sunny afternoon, (|uite 

 typical of the Indian summer through which we were passing. 



Our next venture was with the Harriers on Saturday, when Mr. Quare 

 came to Coopersale Hall, and we had a very large muster, quite fifteen ladies, 

 including Miss Quare, Mrs. F. Ball, Miss Tait, Misses D. and M. Sewell, 

 Mrs. Bennett and her sister, Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Brook-Alder, INIiss Savill, Miss 

 M. Buxton, Rev. G. Ward Saunders on "Old Cockie;" Mr. M. Tosetti, 

 Mr. G. Dawson, young Jack Miller, riding my roan mare ; Mr. Gerald 

 Buxton, Mr. Doxat, Mr. Bestall, Mr. G. H. Lee, Mr. H. W. Lee, I\Ir. 

 Horner, Mr. F. Avila, Messrs. W. and A. Sewell, Mr. Brook- Alder, A. R. 

 Steele. Found a brace of hares on Mr. H. J. IVIiller's land, much to 

 Henry John's satisfaction. H. J. was on foot, with INIr. Fhnt and several 

 others, and in at the death when we killed in covert. Subsequently found 

 another hare near Theydon Garnon Rectory, which ran towards Brook 

 House, and was killed after going very straight for four or five fields over 

 some good fences. 



In less than ten minutes we found another hare, which gave us a real 

 good run. Jumping up opposite Brook House, she soon struck the road and 

 held it past James Smith's, Hobbs Cross, and then turned right-handed over 

 his big fields, and led us a merry dance past Barber's and away over the 

 meadows at racing pace to Jordan's Farm, where hounds checked. How- 



