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But trimmed or not, in or over, a good many would have followed the 

 hold "Trimmer" and Mr. C. E. Green had they guessed at the fun 

 beyond, as up hill and down dale, over fair fences, hounds pressed on, across 

 the grass without a check, leaving Ball Hill on the right to Deer Park, 

 where the huntsman, who had been in difficulties, managed to come up, 

 not another soul in sight. Leaving Deer Park the scent was so hot 

 that even a iield liberally dressed with gas-lime did not put them off, and 

 there was no check before reaching Galley Hills, where the field got up. 

 Working round by Monkhams and Warlies, we killed in Deer Park, but 

 I question if the hunted fox were the owner of the " In Memoriam " 

 mask which now adorns my walls, for Mr. Carr, who was then farming 

 and still farms near Deer Park, viewed a customer with his brush down 

 stealing back to Orange Wood. Sir Henry, Bobby Wood, F. Green, and a 

 host of others, will remember this cheery morning. Didn't you buy 

 Sir Henry's "Madrid" that day, Mr. Green, after having given liim as 

 his first little jump a five-barred gate ? I know you never regretted his 

 purchase. 



Orange Wood 



Mr. Vigne's Harriers were at the same fixture two Saturdays later. 

 The day was uncommonly wet, so few turned up to meet them, Messrs. W. 

 Sewell, Pelly, Ketts, Miller and G. Willis pretty well comprising the field. 

 My only note of the day is that, having to leave after the first gallop, which 

 was brought to a sudden termination by the hare found on Mr. Symes' land 

 being drowned as she essayed to cross the Cobbin's Brook, on returning to 

 look for them I met Mr. Pelly, who had spent most of his morning getting 

 out of a ditch and the rest of the day in looking for hounds — which Mr. 

 Pelly it was my readers must find out for themselves. 



Sir Henry always liked even a cub to have a chance, so we may fairly 

 surmise that the animal which was found and chopped at Moor Hall on 

 Monday, October 23, when the hounds met at High House, Harlow, did 



