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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



of time as to drive us all to desperation, though even then it was not good 

 enough to wait for the hunting-crop which was recovered next day. Mrs. 

 Bowlby was one of the few ladies who saw this run. 



Anything but a pleasant morning for hunting must have been the 

 thoughts of many when they met at the breakfast table on Wednesday, 

 December 20, as they witnessed the rain dashing agamst the wmdows and 

 heard the wind surging with gusty violence. Fortunate were those to 

 whom the meet at Thrushes Bush lay handy, for by ten o'clock tlnngs 

 looked a little better ; but the rain still came in fitful showers, and a tall 

 hat was hardly the most comfortable, if the most orthodox head-gear. 



Harlow Park 



Some sixty or seventy were at the meet — a small field for Essex — clad 

 in sombre hue, with half-a-dozen " pinks " at the outside ; but sixty out of 

 that seventy meant business. I can give, if not all, most of the names: — 

 The joint Masters (Mr. Arkwright and Mr. Bowlby), Mrs. Bowlby, the 

 Countess of Warwick, Sir T. Fowell Buxton and the Misses Buxton (3), 

 Mr. Noel Buxton, Mr. A. J. Edwards, Mr. Biron (late Master of the 

 Surrey Foxhounds), Mr. W. H. Pemberton Barnes, Mr. R. Bevan, Mr. 

 Ford Barclay, Mr. Basham, Mr. G. Brown, Major and Mrs. Carter, Mr, 

 Caldecott, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Green (of Parndon) and his son, Mr. F. Green, 

 jun., Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fowler^- Mr. G. Gilbey, Mr. G. Hart, Mr. J. 

 Harris, :\Ir. Horner and his son, Mr. T. R. Hull, Mr. H. E. Jones, Miss 

 Jones, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. P. 'S. Lee, Mr. R. C. Lyall, Miss Morgan 

 and a nephew, Miss Oliver, Messrs. Pelly (4), I\Ir. H. J. Price, the Rev. L. 

 Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. Sewell, Mr. G. Sewell, Mr. Steele, Capt. H. F. M. 

 Wilson, Mr. Brumskill, Messrs. Avila, Lines, Morris, and others. 



Now for the run — certainly one of the best I have seen during the 

 fifteen years I have hunted with the Essex hounds. Harlow Park again, at 



