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H. S. King, J. Eldred, F. Cooper, Elvin, W. H. Littler, J. H. Harris, 

 and others. 



Mr. R. Lockwood writes:— "Sir Henry tried to give us the slip and 

 partially succeeded, for they found at once, and went away a rattling pace 

 at the bottom across the river up to Gladwyns, turned to the right by 

 Broke's House past Quick Wood to Hyde Hall Springs on to Wallbury 

 Dell. Here we had our first check of ten minutes — horses wanted it and 

 many of those left behind would never have caught us without it. A boy 

 gave us the tip, and we ran to the Sewage Farm and Latchmore Banks 

 back into Takeley, through the forest nearly up to Hatfield Heath into 

 view, but," &c., &c.''' 



After a capital run of an hour from Apes Grove on Monday, Dec. 21st, 

 we finished up with a clinker from the Osiers at Passingford Bridge, running 

 up to Havering through Mr. Pemberton Barnes' garden. They came back 

 and pulled the fox down in the open, and very black he looked before they 

 nailed him near Crane's Wood. Mr. C. F. McKee riding his well known 

 horse " Bill Richmond," Mr. R. Lockwood on " Friar," had decidedly the 

 best of it as they led nearly all the way, the former hopping over the 

 parapet out of Pyrgo Park Garden with a big drop beyond as if it were a 

 sheep hurdle. 



Monday, January 4th, Hatfield Heath. For the third time this season 

 this fixture was marked by a wet day ; we killed a brace and ran two to 

 ground. It was in the second run near Takeley Forest that Miss M. Glyn, 

 riding " Lady Betty," had the misfortune to break her arm. 



Having to go up to town on the morning of Monday, Jan. iSth, I missed 

 a very fast run from Blake Hall to Fyfield. The fox funked crossing the 

 river, which was very deep, and was killed. Mr. R. Lockwood said no 

 one got away with the hounds except Bailey, but luckily I was in time to 

 come across hounds in full cry in Ongar Park, and to come out with the 

 huntsman and a dozen others, as running bang through Beachett's hounds 

 struck the open below Mount Kiln brick fields. As we rode down the steep 

 Mount hill they were on our right, but crossed the road between Jordan's 

 Farm and Barber's Wood, and then swinging away towards the village 

 took us over our favourite brook near Pegrams, into which the Major f went 

 and where his horse remained for some time. Not a check until we had 

 passed Mr. Blott's Farm (now Mr. Flux's), Coopersale Hall. Turning back 

 over Stew Green, hounds crossed the railway below Mr. Fitch's by them- 

 selves and spoke to their fox in a drain at Theydon Grove. Another going 

 away, a good deal of care had to be exercised by the huntsman to avoid 

 the spiked palings. I Taking it over the road into Watson's, now Ginger's 

 Wood, at the end of an hour he was lost in Ongar Park, by which time it 

 was freezing hard. With snow on the ground and frost and fog in the 

 air, they met at Willingale at 12 o'clock on Wednesday, January 27th, the 

 following being out :— Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby, Mr. Sheftield Neave, Col. 

 Lockwood and his brother, Mr. Edward Ind, Mr. Tyndale White, Mr. K. 

 E. Jones, and Messrs. Kemp (2), R. Ball, A. Suart, J. Walmesly and 

 Roffey. The sport was not so good as the company, and calls for no special 

 mention. Saturday, Jan. 30th, Bay's Grove to Eastwick after 4 p.m. was 

 a gallop above the average, though the river threw us out. 



Wednesday, February 23rd. I remember well Mr. R. Lockwood 

 telling me that one of the best days he ever had in his life (his diary says 

 " quite the best day I have ever seen in my life ") was the snowy Saturday, 



* The rest of this sentence must be looked for in the next edition.— £'<-;'. 

 t Major Tait. t Subsequently Mr. Green had these all defended by boards. 



