340 The Hunting Countries of England, 



THE ESSEX AND THE ESSEX 

 UNION. * 



If you must hunt from London^ tlie Essex packs are 

 as easy of access as any others^ and will give you 

 quite as mucli sport as is to be liad anywhere near. 

 To the City-man they offer unusual advantages ; for 

 the Great Eastern Eailway, starting from the midst of 

 the money-making quarter of the metropolis, will set 

 him down at points within riding distance of hounds 

 every morning that he can wash his hands of work, 

 or delegate someone else to do it for him. He can 

 either hunt from his work, or work from his hunting- 

 ground. Half an hour — to an hour — from Liverpool- 

 street Station will bring him down, with comfort and 

 the morning paper, to Romford, Brentwood, Ingate- 

 stone, or Chelmsford — allowing him to breakfast at a 

 comfortable hour before starting. By a man of 

 business habits the breakfast-hour may possibly be 

 held as little or no concern. But the sternest devotee 

 of the gold-god can surely never have tutored himself 

 to such a pitch as to prefer taking his relaxation by 

 candlelight — which a fox-hunting merchant must do, 

 each morning that he would travel from Euston or 



* Vide Stanford's " Hunting Map," Sheets 16 and 17, and 

 Hobson's Foxhunting Atlas. 



