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the day was over we had two quick things, first, a fifteen minutes to 

 ground, when I distinctly recollect the smart manner Wells got his hounds 

 away, and his bold and rapid style of charging fences, winding up with 

 another fast gallop of about an hour over what I wrote down at the time, a 

 very indifferent country, very large fields with scrambling fences, and 

 further, Wells' remark that the hounds were too quick for the country, 

 which was such a bad scenting: one. 



Rev. Frederick Fane 



Meeting at Abridge on Saturday, February i6th, 1884, with the wind 

 south-east, it was no day for standing about. We found at once in the 

 covert adjoining Apes Grove, ran nearly the length of it, and came out in 

 the direction of Rolls Park^the same line that he led us such a dance over 

 in the fog on January i6th up to Hainault Forest, when a good many of the 

 hounds were lost, and did not turn up for several days. This time the fox 

 was headed, and doubled back to Apes Grove, Brooker turning the hounds 

 very smartly. It did one good to see the Rev. F. Fane, who has seen over 

 seventy winters, negotiate a hurdle with footbridge to him, while the rest 

 of us crowded through a gap to follow the hounds, who ran very nicely 

 after crossing the road below the Rectory up to Big Wood, where Jack 

 viewed him slipping back. This fox evidently did not like leaving home, 

 as, after running past the Rectory again parallel with the road for some 

 distance (where Mr. Hervey Foster in his carriage did good service by 



