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will be taken to the six pioneers of this run, the heavy weights having 

 the advantage in numbers, Col. S. Howard, Mr. C. E. Green, Mr. F. 

 Green on " Madrid," and Mr. Hargreaves on " Ugly Boy." Mr. H. E. 

 Jones, Mr. Walmsley, Mr. Colvin, sans hat, were close to them. 



Ought the scribe to tell what happened as we went off to draw again ? 

 Yes, if only as a warning to others not to come late to a meet. There was 

 no mistaking those two forms we saw approaching us, one in black on a 

 good-looking bay, and who has an eye to hounds which few equal, none 

 surpass : the other in pink on a well-bred grey. It is the Colonel and 

 Bobby, +■ and they are done, clean done, by coming late. They cannot stem 



H. E. Jones on The Colonel (See page j-j.) 



the current of smiling faces and chaff very long, but turn round and jog on 

 with us to Deer Park, sadder, if wiser men. Another quick find, for a fox 

 was being bustled round in a style that made us feel pretty certain that he 

 would soon face the open. Unluckily headed in his first attempt towards 

 Warlies, he doubled back and ran through Galley Hills, which is, so to 

 speak, a reservoir of foxes as it feeds the surrounding country, where he 

 found many allies. Bailey was lucky enough, howe\er, to get away with one 

 in the direction of Nasing Gate. Foxes seldom break on that side, so it was 



Colonel Lockwood and bis brother. 



