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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



Arkwright, Caldwells (4), Sewells (3), Kemps (2), Buxtons (many), Pellys 

 (2), Jones (2), Hull, T. J. Mills, Hargreaves, Waters (Mrs. and Miss), Miss 

 Fane, Mr. Tyndale White, Mr. Horner, Mr. Borwick, and Mr. James Green. 

 We had a very nice day, made up of a gallop from Barnsleys, followed by 

 another from \'icarage Wood, and winding up with a good spin from 

 Parndon Woods to Harris's, and on to Pinnacles and Broadley Common. 



The meet at Passingford Bridge, Monday, Jan. 30th, was graced by the 

 presence of Lady Brooke, who made her iirst appearance in this trappy 

 country, in which, however, she seemed as much at home as in her native 

 Roothings; a merry morning, with one of Col. Lockwood's foxes in, 

 through, and round his covert, a brace of foxes away from Sir Charles 

 Smith's osiers, and a brace of foxes away from Curtis Mill-green. And 

 with tlie latter my tale commences. 





Horse Shoe Wood, Rose Hall 



Little recked those who boldly took their stand at the top of this wild 

 covert, or who in patient hope waited in the valley below, of the great run 

 they were in for. Scarce two minutes in covert before a deep note, answered 

 by hound after hound, and followed by Jack's scream of " Gone 

 aw-ay I " and some of the pack were already out. Mr. Sworder viewed a 

 fox stealing up the hill on the right, but there was another fox away below 

 in the valley, and on his line the huntsman was cheering on the body of 

 the pack. 



Settling to it at once, liounds drove along over the plough, and raced 

 away to Rose Wood. That maddening chorus proclaimed that they were 

 close at him, as they rattled him round that horseshoe covert. With arched 

 back he came looping out of the wood, to shoot across the grass like an 

 arrow, over the road into the big Navestock pasture— a ringing view holloa 

 announcing his flight. 



