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LEAVES EROM A HUNTING DIARY 



on guard at the entrance to his hall. A large field on Thursday, October 

 25th, at the Brook House, including, the Master on " Katinka," Messrs. C. 

 and F. Green, Hargreaves, Bagot, Sewells, W. and G. A. Suart, Sworder, 

 Mills, Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Waters, Major and Mrs. Tait, Bob Ball, C. 

 Meek and Her^^ey Foster on wheels. A fine fox was put out of a tree in 

 Rolls Park, and with hounds close at his brush, gave us a capital thirty- 

 one minutes over a very pewy country ; Lord Rookwood, in his diary, which 

 he kindly lent me, says, " over a beastly country," nearly up to Buckhurst 

 Hill. Mr. H. J. Miller, tackling a very green fence down hill at the com- 

 mencement of the run, secured a place which no one could wrest from him, 

 and in a subsequent burst of thirty-five minutes with a fox from the Warren 

 hounds, ran clean away from everyone. 



Edward Gibson 



Edward Gibson hunted with the Essex [Hounds long- before 

 I knew him, but I always recall as one of the happiest days 

 of my life that morning when he entertained us all so royally. 

 An enthusiastic fox-hunter, it was a bad day for the country 

 wlu'.n he left .Screens. He generally, however, pays a visit to 

 our part of the country at the Rundells Races, and his 

 cheery greeting and hearty grip of the hand is something 

 that does vou good. 



