Gilston Park 



CHAPTER IX 



Gilston Park — E. Salvin Boidby — The Annual Meeting, March lyth, 1894 — ^^^^ 

 Mark Hall Run — Full Cry past Maries — Andrew Roddick — The Duke of 

 York's Own Loyal Suffolk Hussars — A lovely country bar the wire — The 

 Admiral to the rescue — The Lea Valley — The Melles Family — Bones and 

 Brigadier — The German Officers — A late draw — Golfing tueather — The Essex 

 Stag Hounds — Grange Farm — A scent on the dusty ploughs— Sampling a 

 blind 'un — Sheffield Neave, M.S.H. — Stratford— Captain Digby Neave — 

 Leinster — False Prophets — Lnffman s Earths — Twenty good days — Newman 

 Gilbey — The Challenge — The Denouement — John Swire — York. 



BOSLEY'S Fox. Monday, February 26th, i8g|. Passingford Bridge 

 Hounds slipped away by themselves from Ongar Park to Blake Hall 

 Station, and on by North Weald and back to the Woods, Mr. A. Darby 

 catching them as soon as any one. In the evening ten only of us remained, 

 for a good run with an outlying fox of Bosley's, at the back of Weald 

 Church. Messrs. E. and F. Ball, Miss Morgan and her nephew, Messrs. 

 Caldecott, Darby, Arkwright, and two men from Brentwood. Found him 

 again, and he gave us a capital gallop by the wood near the " Talbot," 

 up to Blake Hall Station Wood, and on to Dewley Wood and Blake Hall. 

 Wednesday, February 28th, 1894, Little Laver Mill. A regular Essex 

 morning. To the meet in a driving sleet, the country quite under water. 

 A good many out, including Col. Lockwood, Lady Warwick, Sir Evelyn 

 Wood, V.C., Major Riddell, Capts. Ricardo and Bruce, Sellar, Messrs. 

 H. E. Jones, F. Ball, G. Sewell, Hull, Christys (2), H. Fowler, C. Collin, 

 Lee, Evans, and Buxton, Miss Jones, Miss Morgan, and many more. We 

 found a fox at Brick Kilns, and he took us along well to Man Wood, enter- 

 ing the lower end, and going out towards Row Wood by Cammas Hall, and 

 lost at Poplars ; 25 minutes' very nice hunting run, and quite fast enough 

 with the country so deep. Found again in some cabbages near Matching 

 Park, and ran very fast through there and on to Down Hall and Man Wood, 

 and out towards High Laver, where we lost. Found again at Matching 

 Park, and went a spHtter to Moor Hall, through and on to Hobb's Cross, 



