S8 THE WARWICKSHIKE HUNT. [lsio 



Ik- must liavi' liail. or lu' could not liavc l)t'en such a wall jumper,* Ijut in the 

 picture lie does nat carry liis l)one down, has very middling feet, is rather 

 short in the neck, and throaty. This rather supports a somewhat heretical 

 theory which I liold that at their time lu)unds were not bred as a rule Avith 

 the superlative necks and shoulders with which they are represented in most 

 of the sporting pictures of llic day. I liold that this is a later development, 

 and that the artists of that day have given a wrong impression by drawing 

 their lK)unds on a certain pattern, and reaching a certain imaginative standard. 

 It would not 1k' correct to argue from the pictures of Sir Peter Lely's 

 beauties that all ladies of the Court of that time had such slender and 

 aristocratic hands and arms. (See page 21.) 



In the Siiortiny Magazine, new series. Vol. 15, p. 233, there is an 

 interesting account in one of " Nimrod's " letters of the celebrated Katterfelto, 

 immortalised by the late Major Whyte-Melville. He belonged to a Mr. Abel, 

 of Tiverton, in 1778, and afterwards came into the possession of the father 

 of the Rev. John Russell, the celebrated sporting diA'ine. He was only 14.2 

 hands high, but was a wonderful leaper. He is supposed to have been the 

 sire of the swift and hardy Exmoor ponies. 



December 17. — Foimd a fox at Cubl)ing'ton that ran 

 direct for Stoneleigh Park, over it, and through Bericot 

 Cover. He then took an extensive ring, and we got iip to 

 him in a little cover near Cubbington. He went aw-ay at 

 a very fast pace for Off church ; leaving Ufton Wood 

 a mile on the left hand, he made over the country 

 for Oakley Wood. In the next field to that cover 

 he made a turn, and pointed for Chesterton, crossed 

 tlie road half-way between that cover and Oakley, 

 near to Harwood's House, and close to the village of 

 Lighthorne ; then turned from that place and ran close 

 by Chesterton AVood, and pointed for Itchington ; he ran 

 forward, and passed very near to Lord Willoughby's gorse,t 

 over Chadshunt Heath, through the copses near to that 

 ]:>hice, and then over the grass fields to within one mile of 

 l\iiieton, when the hounds were stopped, it being then 

 s(» (lark it was not possible to ride after them. 



The hounds ran the fox six hours all but twenty 

 minutes. Tlie distance was very great. The horses 

 stopped in all parts (if the country, and only six were 

 u]) at the end of the run. 



* The present Lord W. de Broke entered a hound called Acolyte, who had been 

 taught to sit up and beg when at walk. He was a splendid fencer, as was Furley, 

 who never crept through a fence or gate but always took them flying. — W. R. V. 



t Most likely " Verney's gorse." 



