228 



LEAVES FROM A IIUNTINC. DIARV 



fast through the Osiers, the bulk of the pack going to the right while Bailey 

 was left behind with a few on the left. It was some time before he got 

 all his hounds together again, for they now ran on hard, the pace being so 

 good that Blyth, the farmer, tackled some barbed wire, luckily breaking a 

 strand and letting us through ; when, however, we reached the road there 

 was a check, and hounds without a huntsman shortly became subdivided 

 again. Directly Bailey got to his hounds another fox was viewed near 

 College Wood, and he gave us a rare run of an hour and fifteen minutes 

 before he yielded up his brush. The pace was very good at first and the 

 ground holding. One ditch had two in it at once, and a stile brought Mr. 

 Chaffey Collin to grief on a blown horse. Eventually we ran up to Spring- 

 field, and after crossing the river two or three times we ran into our fox by 

 Mr. Wells' house close to Chelmsford. 



C. E. Green 



W^e shall have no better portrait of " Charlie Green." as he 

 is called by his familiar friends, than ihc above, which appeared 

 in ]^ailys Magazine in June, 1 889, until a grateful county, at 

 let us hope, no distant date, shall have presented him with a 

 picture of himself and his favoin-ite hunter. No picture, 

 however, of the subject of our memoir will be complete that 



