70 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1824 



went well, and were up at the death. Not often, if ever, 

 before or afterwards, were two such rims seen from Edge 

 Hill nearly within one week. 



The last meet of the season was at Hook Norton on 

 April 5th, 1824. 



On January .:21st, 18:24, the Warwickshire Hounds had 

 a severe run through a great extent of plough and wood- 

 land country. They found a fox at Alveston Pasture, and 

 ran through Charlecote Park, leaving the Plesters' Coverts 

 to the right ; thence over the canal and Warwick Poad, 

 and through Leamington, which then consisted of only a 

 few houses ; and from there over the Avon to Leek Wooton, 

 and killed the fox in the turnpike road close to Chesford 

 Bridge. Captain Pussell, Mr. H. Wyatt, Mr. Napier, Mr. 

 Eussell, Mr. Pickering, Mr. P. Holland, and Wood, the 

 huntsman, were in at the death. 



On September 5th, 1824, Mr. Vyner relates: On this 

 day one of the best runs I ever knew in my whole life took 

 place with the Warwickshire hounds. It was an accident, 

 as the bounds broke away, and the men were not mounted 

 to go with them, and consequently could not stop them. 

 They found at five o'clock in the morning at the Bull and 

 Butcher Wood, six miles from Coventry, and killed him 

 close to Crick, in Northamptonshire — fifteen miles from 

 point to point. The pace was tremendous, and no one who 

 started with the hounds was up at the finish except William 

 Boxall, who was then first whipper-in ; there were nearly 

 fifty couples of hounds out, seventeen and a half couples of 

 wbich were of that year's entry, and had only been out 

 four times before that day. 



We extract the following from the supplement to 

 " Eural Sports," published in 1813, by the Eev. Wilham 

 B. Daniel : 



This nudeviatiug perseverance in a foxlionnd took place A.D. 1808, in 

 the counties of Inverness and Perth, and ])erliaps surpasses any length of 

 pursuit known in the annals of foxhunting. On the 8th June, near Dunkeld, 

 Perthshire, were seen on the high road a fox and a hound proceeding at a 

 slow trotting pace. The dog was about the distance of fifty yards behind the 

 fox, and each was so fatigned as not to gain upon the other. A countryman 



