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Olives. A swollen brook, however, which hounds kept crossing and 

 several foxes on foot rather spoilt this gallop. Willie Sewell's cob slipped 

 up on a bridge and landed him in six inches of liquid mud. Two very bad 

 foxes afterwards killed near Olives brought the day's proceedings to a 

 close. Considering the amount of rain we have had this autumn, the 

 country rode very well. 



Captain J. B. DuCane 



Captain J. H. 1 )ii Cane has often Ix-cn taken for Mr. I{. 

 Caldecott, and he rcscnihlcs him not onl\ in physiognomy. l)ut 

 in possessing a similar reputation for hcino- one of the hardest 

 riders to hounds that Essex soil has e\er })roduced. 

 " He is the stuff that soldiers arc made of." 



Monday, November 2nd. Matching Green. Much the same as other 

 Matching Greens. A great crowd on wheels and on horseback. I had 

 to leave early but managed to see a cub killed before doing so. 

 -- " Never swop horses in mid-stream " is hardly applicable to changing 

 mounts in the hunting-field, otherwise Mat Milton would hardly have made 

 three hundred guineas of the bay horse (dear at one hundred), one of three 

 bays " you couldn't tell asunder," which Dick Christian, who then rode for 



