THE GREAT ROW WOOD RUN. 1 844 ■>2I 



&c., alluding- to the opportunity Conyers had of purchasino- 

 "Carlow," the neglect, or rather rejection, of which, had been 

 the cause of his becoming my property. 



Saturday, November 23rd. After being much pulled down 

 during the week by violent cold and dosing and other remedies 

 for it, and still suffering from it to an extent to deprive me of 

 my usual spirits in the anticipation of a day's sport, and the 

 day being cloudy and cold, but still with the wind at N.E., I 

 proceeded sohis to the meet at Hatfield Heath, hackino- the 

 little chestnut, "Chancellor," who was quite in a fidget at sioht 

 of assembled horses and red coats. INIounting " Carlow " we 

 proceeded to draw several springs and small woods in the 

 neighbourhood to allow the Squire, who had friends stayino- 

 with him, to join us. Met the Rev. Charles Tyrrell, whom I 

 had seen in the train on Tuesday morning, on his way to 

 Oxford, to purchase a horse, and found that he had acted on 

 my recommendation and gone to Tom Smart, of Cricklade, and 

 bought one from him. The Squire coming up we trotted away 

 to Row Wood, which looked like business. " Carlow" made a 

 mistake going thither by coming down at a foolish little place 

 into a road and depositing his rider on his back. He behaved, 

 however, very well afterwards, standing still without attemptino- 

 to hurt me, so that I was glad of the fall as it settled satisfac- 

 torily a doubt I entertained about him. Knowing his vicious 

 propensities in the stable, Mr. Wm. Whitfield * could scarcelv 

 believe his eyes when he saw me down, but laughed heartily at 

 the mode in which both animals acquitted themselves. 



Drew Row Wood without a symptom of a fox, and after- 

 wards a small wood adjoining with like result and with blank 

 faces were proceeding to Waters Corse when the Squire and 

 Jim Morgan threw the hounds into another part of the small 

 wood (Waters Grove) and a minute afterwards our ears were 

 greeted with Will Orvis' (the first whip) view halloa. Galloped 

 round the wood and viewed a fine doQ- fox eoino- at a slashino- 

 pace across a large field to Row Wood. The hounds were laid 

 on his track immediately and the gallant fellow disdaining all 

 shelter from covert passed through Row W^ood, thence to Man 

 Wood at a splitting pace, disdaining the protection of which, he 

 made to Brick Kilns, and thence to Norwood, and thence by a 

 track certainly not known to me across Forest Hall to Ongar 

 Park Woods. The distance, which those who knew the country 

 best (Collins and others) estimated at twenty miles as the fox 



* A splendid horseman. 

 21 VOL. U. 



