THE WARREN FOX 55 



Deacon, Hill, Caldecotts (two), Bury, Ouares (two), Mrs. Ark- 

 wright, four Ridleys, Taylor of Stortford 



Monday, January 5, 1874. A Stanford Rivers meet, and 

 plenty of sport. One run. from the Beachetts, through Ongar 

 l^irk by Greensted. to ground at Stanford Hall, was particu- 

 larly good. Sir C. Smith, Miss Howard, Bury, Newall (who 

 had two falls), Caldecotts, Miss Caton, Ashley, &c., were out. 

 Hervey Foster's horse again went into a pond. January 14 : 

 A lovely morning. Started at 10.30 on Sir H. Selwin Ibbet- 

 son's drag. Lady Fitzgerald on the box, and had a charming 

 drive to Forest Hall, where Mr. Newall entertained all comers 

 at breakfast. Sport of quite average character followed, but 

 the ground was very heavy, and grief terrible. " Luckpenny " 

 down; "The Frog" showed temper and fell three times; 

 Saunders was out, and rode so hard that he came in for some 

 censure. 



A Long Barns Day, Wednesday, January 21, and a good 

 big fox was the one they found in a stubble field, and ran 

 through Screens and Berners, and straight to Willingale, 

 where they pulled him down, after a very fast 55 min., young 

 Marsh and Wigram taking- the head and brush. A few 

 Artillerymen out. 



Ancl so with varying luck the diary runs on through 

 February and March, and no stoppages for frost. The fact 

 strikes one on looking through these '73-74 notes that foxes 

 made no better points then than now. 



A three-year-old customer, they tell me (his mask grins down upon me as 

 I pen these lines), was the Warren fox that for 43 minutes stood up 

 in front of hounds without a check, on Monday, Feb. 5th, one of the few 

 Copped Hall, Warren or Forest foxes that Bailey has ever succeeded in 

 killing. No wonder that Mr. H. J. Miller keeps his brush as a valuable 

 trophy ! Out at the bottom of the Warren and round the big house he 

 swung, and entering the Forest beyond Copped Hall Green, came out near 

 the Wake Corner, straight through without a falter by Debden Green to 

 Loughton Shaws ; hounds nailing him on the return journey at the back of 

 Golding's Hill. 



Another of the wet days of the season was Saturday, Feb. loth, when 

 I rode on with Mr. and Mrs. Waters to the meet at High Laver, and an 

 indifferent day's sport. Owing to the continued downpour our hounds only 

 went to Radwinter on Friday, in the following week, and thereby hangs 

 a tale— for several of us, including George Dawson, who drove with me, 

 but never got further than Ware, as his hunter pulled out dead lame, 

 Mr. and Mrs. Waters, Messrs. H. Fowler, J. and E. Felly, C. E. Green, 

 A. Suart, W. Sewell, Ball, Hart, Steele, Green, of Parndon, made a raid 

 on the Hertfordshire country, on Saturday, Feb. 17th ; our advent for- 

 tunately not frightening the Master, who, if scent had been better, would 

 doubtless have shown good sport, for we found plenty of foxes. 



The farmers attending Waltham market on Tuesday, Feb. 20th, were 



