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End, Leaden Roothing, Matching Park, 

 Row Wood, Marks, and Offrey. All the 

 foxes found in the coverts mentioned are 

 stub bred ; I declare to you 1 do not re- 

 member ever finding a bad running fox 

 from Ongar to Haverhill, a distance of 

 thirty miles. The foxes in the Harding- 

 green country in Suffolk, which I once 

 hunted, are also stout, but the enclosures 

 being rather small, and the country some- 

 what hilly, it renders it altogether inferior 

 to Essex ; but the gentlemen and farmers 

 of both countries were very civil and oblig- 

 ing, and that contributes to make a country 

 agreeable, if in other respects it is not quite 

 so good as a sportsman could wish. 



During the time I hunted Essex, we had 

 our Dunmow meetings, which I assure you 

 enlivened us not a little; and whilst I de- 

 voted myself to that part of the country, 

 which was usually for a week or ten days 

 each time, and perhaps three or four times 



