338 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



did as he was bid, but shouted: — " I know you, 

 Jack." The men bolted, and Joslin called 

 to us for help. 



Mumford and Hutley ran up to Joslin, 

 whilst I ran along the meadow to the end 

 of the wood, where the path led three different 

 ways, to Oakley or Ugley, Elsenham, and 

 Tye-green. I thought to catch the men as 

 they came out of the wood, but neither saw 

 or heard anything at all ; after waiting about 

 fifteen or twenty minutes I called out, but for 

 some time could get no answer. At last the 

 others answered my hail, and when they came 

 up I learned that they had lost the poachers. 

 These latter had crept through a gap and gained 

 the fields, making off towards Tye Green, 

 pursued by Joslin and the other two, but had 

 escaped, either by doubling down a quickset 

 hedge, or lying up in a ditch. 



Joslin told me that he knew one of them. 

 Jack Monk, I subsequently got a warrant 

 for Monk's arrest, and Inspector Scott, of the 

 County Constabulary, asked me if I would 

 mind going with him to execute the warrant. 



