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and although by no means fast, was a splendid fencer, and 

 would o-() o-alloping- on when others had had enough. For many- 

 seasons, right up to the year '90, when, to the deep sorrow 

 of all who knew him, his bold owner passed away, the grey 

 was a conspicuous beacon in every run, and he and his rider 

 were never to my knowledge thrown out or left behind. 



Driving over to Loughton with W. Sewell, after a bitterly cold day 

 at Pyrgo Park on January 5th, we w^ere caught in a dense fog near the 

 Wake Arms, which came down like a thick black veil ; you could not see 

 your hand before your face, and until the worst of it blew over the animal 

 we were driving would not budge an inch. Hunting was stopped by one 

 night's frost ; the next day the country was white with snow, which looked 

 like remaining. It did not, however, for we had only a week later the 

 run of the season. 



Thornwood Gate 



Among the 140 to 150 who turned up at the meet at Thornwood 

 Common on Monday, January 19th, 1885,— I am accurate in giving the 

 numbers, for one of our sportsmen, "''who, I am sorry to say, was leaving us that 

 evening to go into another country, took the trouble to count them, I suppose 

 for the sake of comparing notes — I noticed the following : Sir Charles 

 Cunliffe Smith, Mr. Drummond Smith, Mr. R. Smith, Rev. F. Fane and 

 Miss Fane, Col. Lockwood, Mr. R. Wood, Mr. C. E. Green, Mr. F. 

 Green and his two sons on very sporting-looking ponies. Major and Mrs. 

 Tait, Mr. Arkwright, Mr. T. J. Mills, Mr. Loftus Arkwright, jun., Mr. 

 Tyndale White, Mr. Courtenay Warner, Mr. Sewell, Mr. George Hart, Mr. 



R. Lockwood. 



