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Tyndale White set to work to catch them, nor did they hesitate a second 

 at the trappy jump in and out of Stew Green, to which more than one 

 horse demurred, and caught hounds just beyond, to find Mr. Fitch and Mr. 

 Young leading, Mr. Young being the first into the road and out over the 

 rotten banked brook, Mr. Harris' horse nearly coming down with him 

 as he essayed it. Mrs. Willie Sewell on Jack was over with the first half 

 dozen who tackled it. 



Hounds (the three and a half couple) flew along up the hill to Mr. Flux's 

 farm, crossed his ride and ran on past Gardener's farm, Mr. Fitch going 

 very strong on the right with Mr. Cecil Savill, Mr. Harris and Mr. Giles, 

 Mr. Young, Mr. Tyndale White and his son, with Mrs. W. Sewell laying 

 up close on the left. Crossing the line below Gardener's Farm, hounds got 

 away from everyone owing to the delay at the railway gates, but were 

 caught in the forest, through which they ran most beautifully up to Copped 

 Hall Lodge gates, bringing their fox back with a will, and running hand- 

 somely into him in an open part of the forest, just short of the Theydon 

 road. Forty-five minutes best pace, a very pretty hunt and a very pretty 

 performance, to find a fox in the Lower Forest* and after a few miles in 

 the open to kill him in the Upper Forest. The keen wind made itself felt 

 after this hot gallop, and there was a run on the refreshments at several 

 houses in Epping before Bailey went on with hounds to Weald Coppice 

 and other likely coverts, to draw on till nearly six without finding again. 



North East wind with snow showers was a true forecast for the last 

 Monday in March, 1900, on which day our hounds met at Epping Long 

 Green at 12 o'clock. The card said 11, and several luckless individuals, 

 including Mr. Ralph Bury, arrived an hour too soon, to shiver in the icy 

 blast, but they were soon warmed into action when Bailey got news of a 

 fox below Orange Wood, and slipping away quickly from the covert, laid 

 hounds on the line of a traveller. There was a scramble at the ford 

 through the Cobbin Brook, and a good many refusals at the fence beyond, 

 a wattled hedge with a wide ditch, which brought Bailey to grief ; only the 

 top of his horse's head could be seen as he lay in the ditch. A strangerf 

 on a long-tailed bay got over first, quickly followed by Short, Mr. C. E. 

 Green and Mr. Swire. 



Two fields beyond the brook hounds checked. The stranger sitting 

 still, waiting for them to pick it up, caught my eye, and the huntsman's cry 

 (not quite liking a stranger to have such a prominent place) " 'Ware wire," 

 caught my ear. 



At the small plantation on the Bury Farm hounds hung fire and failed 

 to carry the line beyond Griffin's Wood, affording time before they found 

 again to take stock of some of those who were out. The Master, Mr. E. 

 S. Bowlby, Mr. C. E. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Arkwright, Mr. Arthur 

 Bowlby, Mr. R. Y. Bevan, Mr. E. A. Ball, Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Ball, Mr. 

 F. T. Basham, Mr. T. R. Hull, Mr. G. Buxton, Major Ricardo, Mr. and 

 Miss Waters, Mr. Ralph Bury, Mr. Henry Buxton, Miss Buxton, Mr. ]. 

 Green, Mr. F. Green, Mr. L. Pelly, Mr. J. G. Pelly, Miss Pelly, Mr. W. 

 Sewell, Miss Dorothy Sewell, Mr. E. Cockett, Mr. J. Todhunter, Mr. 

 Walter Cook, Mr. A. Flint, Mr. J. Swire, Turner, the Huntsman to the 

 Enfield Chase Stag Hounds. Mr. Arthur Sewell, Mr. Howard, of Epping, 

 Mr. W. S. Horner, Mr. H. E. Jones, Mr. G. H. Lee, Mr. C. E. Ridley, 

 Mr. C. Savill, Miss Savill, Mr. Harris, Mr. John White. 



* The Town of Epping divides Epping Forest, the smaller portion is known as the Lower 

 Forest. — Ed. 



t Mr. C. Lane Fox. 



