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LEAVES EROM A HUNTIxXG DL\RY 



what happened, but you mi^ht have learnt later on that 

 hounds had crossed the Dagenham brook, where neither man 

 nor horse could follow, and had disappeared from sight long 

 before the bridge was reached, but in these brief unattended 

 minutes they could scarcely have eaten their fox. l)ut if not, 

 what became of him ? Eh! Mr. W.H.P.B. ? 



This horse, purchased in November, 1886, carried his 

 owner, Mr. W. H. Pemberton-Barnes (present Master of 



' Gamecock " 



the Newmarket and Thurlow Hounds), for nine seasons, and 

 for six of these he came out regularly twice a week with 

 fox and stag ; an extraordinary stayer, no day was ever too 

 long for him. In 1892, when the ground was particularly 

 heavy, h(^ ran second to Mr. G. Sewell's " Duchess." in the 

 welter point-to-point at Epping, beating Mr. Chaffey-Collins's 

 good bay, " Cedric." He lies buried in the Bower Wood, fit 

 resting place for so game an animal, since you may search the 

 country through ere you find a covert round which linger more 

 sporting traditions ; for ha\'e there not been fox and badger 

 earths in this sandy wood for fifty years, at least — probably jfor 

 centuries ? There has, I believe, been a litter of cubs in this 

 wood every year for twenty-five years, with the exception of 



