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best covert in the hunt ; but I preferred 

 Old Park Coppice, a covert at the ex- 

 tremity of the Roothings towards Chelms- 

 ford, probably because I had the best runs 

 from it, and the foxes found in the latter 

 are reckoned the stoutest in Essex. A 

 pack that hunted the Dunmow country 

 before I took it, managed by all the " ta- 

 lents " in that neighbourhood, (nor was 

 their huntsman considered otherwise than 

 a celebrated one,) found from experience 

 that an Old Park fox was not so easily 

 caught, although they seldom missed their 

 foxes in other parts of the hunt. 



A word or two more as to Old Park 

 Coppice as a good covert for sport. I had 

 four very superior runs from it in one sea- 

 son, and killed each day ; and it afforded 

 me several good days sport besides ; I will 

 mention a few of them. One run of an hour 

 and twenty minutes, and killed at Colonel 

 Strutt's, near Maldon, 12 miles an end at 



