._UNTING DIARY. 



ER I. 



ucdot RoUcston — Dcsdichado — J a uics 



ex in 1879 — Making acquaintance inth 



ird Beale Colvin — George Dawson. — 



/-Bury — Albert Deacon— -J. Tod hunter — 



J7^T/ie Crane de la Crane. 



'okwood's permission to dedicate 



Hunting Diary" to him, pointing 



at I first hunted in Essex, that the 



. my Hfe was during his reign, and that 



iC Essex Hunt, in the opinion of those most 



^ut.tge, to a point of perfection never before attained 



. .lals, he rephed as. follows : — "You are too flattering in 



y lecollections of the happy seven years I was most closely 



connected with the Essex Hounds. Any success then achieved 



is far more a result of Bailey's work than of mine, and the only 



diing I can really lay claim to is that 1 was the means of 



^ringing into the country one of the best huntsmen I have ever 



^en." 



There was no flattery in what I wrote to Lord Rookwood in 



^larch, '96. In spite of his modest disclaimer, I must adhere 



CO every letter of it, and add yet a few words further. 'Tis true 



that he brought Bailey into Essex, and that no better huntsman. 



