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Wednesday, January i6th. The Kennels. A real red-letter day. At 

 10.30 a meeting of the principal farmers, landowners and subscribers, 

 was held at the Green Man, Harlow, at which Sir Henry presided. Mr. 

 Green made an offer to take the hounds next season if ;^3,ooo were 

 guaranteed to him for the hrst year. 



Loftus J. W. Arkwright 



After some discussion it was decided to guarantee him ^2,400, and as 

 several subscribers present expressed their wish to further augment their 

 subscription for the coming year, ^"500 was very soon promised. On these 

 conditions Mr. Green consented to take the hounds. It must have been 

 nearly 12 before we moved off to try for an outlying fox on Mr. Harris's 

 farm near Hubbard's Hall. It was a pleasure to see hounds catch a view of 

 that fox, and with heads up and sterns down race after him. Unluckily 

 headed from the open Roothing country, he took a rapid turn back to the 

 Kennels, close to which Roly Bevan came to grief over a stile, and in 



