Introduction. ix 



have also assisted us. It is very satisfactory to record that 

 the greater part of those above mentioned, either liave been 

 or still are ardent supporters of the Warwickshire Hounds. 

 In the long winter evenings, we trust that a perusal of our 

 work may keep alive the memory of sport and wile an hour 

 away. One advantage of our book is, you may take it up 

 and lay it down whenever you please; we have spoken of 

 men and things as they are, and we hope that in days to 

 come our readers may see many more runs as good as those 

 which we have endeavoured to describe. If they weary in 

 reading these records of days gone, by, it will not be our 

 fault, and we will say to each long suffering subscriber by 

 way of comfort, so exactly have we tried to reproduce 

 the past : 



Delicta majoruni ii/i merit ns lues. — Horace, Book III. Ode VI. 



Or again : 



Be to our virtues very kind. 



Be to ovu" faults a little blind. — Prior. 



Singula de nobis anni predantur euntes ; 



Eripuere jooos, venerem, couvivia, ludum. — Horace, Ep. 11., 72. 



Years foU owing years, steal something ev'ry day, 



At last tney steal us from ourselves away. — Pojjes iranslaiion. 



Dear subscribers and kind readers, we hope for a long 

 acquaintanceship, and that it will not be merely a case of 



TOUCH HANDS AND PAKT. 



VuL, 1. 



