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circuit on the Monkhams side of the covert. The week ended 

 in the Roothings, where a brilHant day's sport was enjoyed on 

 December 2nd. Hounds met at Mr. R. Y Bevan's farm at 

 Willingale. A fox was quickly found in Spain's Wood, and 

 was brought to hand in Writtle Park after a oood run. Lords 

 Wood was then drawn, and away went a real g-ood Roothing 

 fox. A merry dance he led the field across the High Easter 

 Brook and on almost to Pleshey Church ; then away through 

 Fitzjohn's and Israel's — next by Mashbury Mill and Chignal 

 Hall, and thence he made his way across to Skreen's Wood 

 and on to Berner's Wood, where hounds ran into him in the 

 dusk. 



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Another red-letter day in November was when hounds ran from Ashdon 

 to Bardfield, some fifteen miles in one hour and forty minutes, and then went 

 home at one o'clock, everybody having had enough. Short, our first whip, 

 always was in the right place at the right time. 



Toot Hill, Monday, December nth, 1899. — My third day's hunting 

 this season. A slight frost in the night and a sprinkling of snow in the 

 morning made hounds late at the meet, at which a good many, including 

 the following, were present, viz., the Field-master, Air. C. E. Green ; Mrs. 

 Bowlby, Miss Eva Bowlby, Mr. A. S. Bowlby, Col. Lockwood, l\Ir. and 

 Mrs. F. Ball, Mr. E. Ball, I\Ir. G. Buxton (Miss M. and T. Buxton jomed 



