402 LEAVES EROM A IIUNTINC; DIARY 



good one, and many good runs have taken place, which those who had the 

 good hick to participate in will never forget. 



Saturday, October 13th. — A capital spin with a cub from Matching Park, killing at Down 

 Hall, will always be remembered by the Jones v. Collin match. 



Wednesday, October 17th. — Eight a.m., at the King William. A clinking good run. I 

 shall not forget it. The captain* hung me up over a gate, and finished me off to dry over the 

 High Easter brook, which Mr. Crocker and many others flew in their stride. 



Monday, October 22nd. — Half-past eight, at Coopersale. A great morning's sport from 

 Beachetts, which, as luck would have it, was never repeated from this covert. 



Wednesday, October 31st. — Fog and mist. A rattling gallop from Galley Hills, most of us 

 left behind. 



Monday, November 12th. — One hour and fifteen minutes from Mrs. Mcintosh's gorse. Was 

 one of the best runs I have ever seen. Mr. Willie Sewell bought the brush. 



Friday, November i6th. — "Great Easton." "Maxima dies." 



Saturday, November 17th. — A day full of incident and sport {vide Essex Times). 



Wednesday, November 2isl. — A great run from the Forest to ground at Down Hall. Must 

 always remain sadly associated in the memory as poor Meyer's last gallop with fox hounds. 



Monday, November 26th. — The Bobbingworth W^ood day, with Mr. Millbank's fox. Run 

 at a great pace, or Beacon Hill, Navestock, could not have been reached in forty-five minutes. 



Friday, November 30th.— Thaxted. Ask Messrs. Jones, Gilbey, and Collin about this 

 grand day, and don't miss " Sonnet " if by kind invitation you spend a summer's morning on 

 the flags. 



Saturday, December 1st. — White Roothing. But (|uite a red-letter day. The morning run 

 of fifty-five minutes was full of grief and divarshun. 



Monday, December 3rd. — The run came off in the evening in the Navestock country, but 

 was worth staying for. 



Wednesday, December 5th. — Matching Park. Another grand day. Seventy minutes via 

 Norwood, Brick-kilns, Man, and Row Woods. 



Wednesday, December 12th. — .\ splendid woodland hunt in the morning, winding up with 

 a rattling gallop from Weald Coppice in the evening. 



Friday, December 14th. — Dagenham. Still they come. I had no idea that I had seen so 

 many good runs until I came to jot them down. Forty minutes of the best from Mr. Barnes' 

 covert scut us all koine happy at 2. p.m. 



Monday, December 17th. — Norton Heath. " A clinker to Roxwell." 



Saturday, December 22nd. — Hatfield Town the meet, but the run came off from High 

 Roding Springs in a gale and a half of wind to the tune of seventy minutes, and a kill in the 

 open at Screens — quite Chateau Lafitte. 



Christmas Eve. — Nothing stirring took place, but all the same, it was a very enjoyable day 

 spent in the Nasing country. 



Saturday, January 5th. — Met at North Weald, and cheating the frost out of a day gave a 

 zest to the gallop from Berwick Wood. 



Friday, January i8th. — A very fine run of one hour and forty-five minutes followed a 

 Radwinter meet. 



Friday, January 25th. — Dropped in for a very nice run with Mr. E. Barclay's Harriers from 

 Obelisk Wood to the Warren, 



Saturday, P"ebruary 23rd. — Met at High Roding street. Bailey killed a fox, probably the 

 only huntsman in England who upon that day succeeded in doing so, for the frost had only 

 half gone. 



Wednesday, March 6th. — Mr. Collin's run from Weald Coppice to High Laver ; nothing 

 better this season. 



Wednesday, March 20th. — The five-and-forty minutes from Brick-Kilns to Man Wood was 

 run under splendid scenting conditions. 



Monday, March 25th. — A very good but very rough thirty-five minutes from Curtis Mill 

 Green with a fair kill in the open. 



Saturday, March 30th. — Most of the one-horse men had cooked their nags before we got our 

 run in the evening from Parndon Hall. 



Wednesday, April 3rd. — A good hunting run on the top of a 2\ miles fall-producing scurry 

 in twelve minutes. 



Monday, April 8th. — The last advertised meet of the season '94-95. 



Looking at the above notes, it will be readily seen that until the frost set 

 in sport was e.xceptionally good. 



First blood at the fourth time of asking, so it was brought about at 

 Beech Hill Park on Wednesday, September i8th, at seven o'clock in the 



Captain Bruce. 



