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one with his own hounds, and had come up by a special train and was 

 due back at his own covert side the following day), for we only just saved 

 the blank with a short scurry of five minutes across Mark Hall Park to 

 ground, but even those brief moments gave us the opportunity of admiring 

 the cleverness of Lord Londsdale's black horse as he hopped over the ha 

 ha, in the Park. 



Wednesday, December 6th. Hatfield Heath. — The most disappointing 

 season on record. Saturday and Monday preceding we were stopped by 

 frost — up to the present time we had only had one run. However, we 

 had a very fair day at last ; there were plenty of foxes in Down Hall, 

 Man Wood, Brick Kilns and Row Wood. A good many were out, 

 including T. and G. Gilbey, Caldecott, E. Ball (F. Ball was laid up with 

 gout, but drove to the meet), Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, Mr. and Mrs. Bowlby 

 and son, Arkwright, Chaffey Collin, W. Buckmaster, Hull, Jones, 

 Miss Fane, Major and Mrs. Carter, Miss Capel-Cure, Captain Riddell, 

 Pemberton-Barnes, Tufnell, Miss Morgan, George Hart, Green of Parndon, 

 and the Rev. L. Scott. Our first draw was Quick Wood blank : then 

 we went on to Down Hall, where we found at once. Unluckily, we 

 killed our first fox inside the covert. We soon got away with another at 

 the lower end and ran towards Sheering over a lot of cramped fences, 

 we then turned right-handed and ran very fast to Man Wood. Not many 

 saw this hunt as they were left at Down Hall, but amongst those who 

 did were Mr. H. E. Jones, Major Carter and Mr. W. Pemberton-Barnes. 

 After a good hunting run from Brick Kilns, we wound up the evening 

 with a very pretty fast gallop from Row Wood to Poplars. 



Wednesday, December 13th, 1893.— Leaving home late I fortunately fell 

 in with hounds at Shatter Bushes ; it was a very wild day, but very mild. 

 They had had a very sharp ten minutes up wind from Galley Hills to the 

 Windmill in the Waltham Road. We found in Shatter Bushes and 

 ran up to Nasing Coppice and back to Galley Hills, from there we got 

 on fresh terms, and getting away again from the bottom of Galley Hill 

 we crossed the road and ran up to Hollyfield Hall, and bearmg right-handed 

 got down in the Marshes below Mr. C. J. Bury's, slow hunting down wind, 

 our fox had either laid upon the plough or we got on a fresh one, for 

 we ran back at a rattling pace to Galley Hills. There was a stream of 

 pursuers at least a mile long ; we did not dwell a moment in covert 

 before we were away again at the bottom and at a great pace by Dewey's 

 up to Shatter Bushes. Bearing right-handed we ran fast across W^arlies 

 Park to Copped Hall Green and lost in the Forest ; it was a real chnker. 

 A great many were thrown out at Galley Hills, but Mr. G. Buxton, Miss 

 Buxton, Mr. Arkwright and Mr. A. J. Pease riding Mr. Howard Fowler's 

 grey, were not among the many. Drove you to the meet, Mr. Ball, on 

 Monday, December i8th, at Swallow's Cross, but you mustn't blarne me for 

 that nasty roll your new chestnut gave you as we came away with a fox 

 from the High Woods, though we ran to ground in the field it happened in. 

 Mr. Dalton I trow, riding a horse formerly the property of Mr. Elder, which 

 carried him so well in the run on January 8th, i8go, enjoyed the subsequent 

 gallop across Hylands Park up to Galley Wood Common quite as much as 

 Mr. Usborne, INIajor Ricardo, Mr. Fane and his daughter, and Mr. E. 

 Caldecott, who were well in that day. Your bay horse however, made no 

 mistake. Master Ned, the following week in the twenty minutes burst on 

 Wednesday, December 27th, from Mr. D. Christy's cabbages to Ongar 

 Park, though I do not think any of you could quite catch Mr. Gerald 

 Buxton ; but we put it down to M. Daniel Gingell, who hung on a bank at 

 the only loophole out of one field beyond Greensted Wood for such a length 



