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See my hrave pack ! how to the head tliey press. 

 Jostling in eh)se array, then more diif use 

 Obliquely wheel, while from their op'niug moutlis 



The vollevtHl thuuder l)reaks. — Somerville. 



CHAPTER II. 



SOMERVILLE MR. W RIGHTSON MR. JOHN W ARDE MR. CORBET 



HIS FAMOUS HOUND TROJAN THE EPWELL HUNT. 



The earliest record of hunting in Warwickshire is con- 

 tained in a poem written Ijy Somerville, and called " The 

 Chase," in which he shows that he thoroughly understand.^ 

 the art of hunting. He was born in 109.2, and lived at 

 Edstone, in Warwickshire, and died in 174.2. That he 

 kept homids is proved bv the e])itaph on the tombstone of 

 his huntsman Hoilt, who died in 180.2 at the ao-e of 

 eighty-five. It runs as follows : 



Hei'e Hoilt, and his sports and labour past, 

 Joins his loved Master Somerville at last ; 

 Together wont the echoing' fields to trv, 

 Together now in silent dust thej lie — 

 Servant and lord, when once we yield our breath, 

 Huntsman and poet are alike to death. 



The first pack of foxhounds in Warwickshire of which 

 there is any record was kept by Mr. Wrightson, who had 



