MAKING FOB THE GATE. 



Still the same crowd may be seen at the cover, 

 Still the same rush wheu the fox goes away. 



Lord Granville Gordon. 



INTRODUCTION. 



A WORK of tliis kind does not require miicli apology for its 

 publication. The interest in foxhunting is so widespread, 

 and the Warwickshire are a pack of such long standing, 

 that to record their annals for the benefit of future 

 generations cannot be a sujDerfluous task. We should like 

 to point out, in anticipation of our critics, that we have 

 chosen our somewhat desultory method in imitation of 

 the " Old Book " by " Venator," and we trust that the 

 introduction of a few anecdotes &c., will brighten what is 

 necessarily a somewhat monotonous record from the diaries 

 of sport so kindly supplied to us. We call attention 

 to the illustrations, nearly all of which are entii'ely new 



