1829] JACK MYTTON'8 DAEING. 91 



ringing run for tliirty minutes, and lost liiiii. They had a scurry with another 

 which tliey killed in Lord Conibermere's park. Then came the run of the 

 day. Finding a fox in the sedges by the side of the lake, they went away at a 

 good rate, with the hoimds well at him in al)ody, and carrying a good head. 

 Flying through the i>ark, they crossed the Chester Road, and got somewhat 

 dear of the crowd of horsemen that pressed upon them. The pace served 

 the liounds, and so did a " regular yawner " that made the leading men 

 swerve from the line to look for a weak place; it was a sunk fence, l)road and 

 deep, with stiff rails on the top; the height and the width made it nearly 

 impossiljle for a horse to clear it iu his stride. "While they were hesitating at 

 the obstacle, the voice of Jack Mytton was heard saying, '' Out of the way, you 

 fellows ; here goes for the honour of Shropshire." Down came his Hit or 

 Miss mare with Myttim * under her, l)leeding, hatless, and torn. He 

 remount I'd his mare, which had been lirought back to him, and rode l)ai-e- 

 hcadfd through the rest of the run. The liounds, with a greatly diminished 

 following, were stopped at the end of an hour, as they were then running a 

 vixen heavy in cul). "Will Head, never having left the hounds, and as it were 

 first up, was awarded the l)rush. "Will Sta])les, of the Shropshire, however, 

 won two sovereigns from "Will Head, on the wager of whoso hounds should 

 first taste blood. — [Rev. T. H. G. Puleston, " The "Wynnstay Country."] 



"Hark Forward," relates that the seasou of 18:29 had 

 been \'ery open, and that on March 7th but little 

 disappointment was felt when Ladbroke, Watergall, and 

 Ead])onrne Coverts were drawn blank. A good fox w^as 

 found at Itchington Heath, which led the field through 

 Chesterton Wood, and from there by Lighthorne, and over 

 the \'ale, to the right of (xaydon, to Edge Hill, where he 

 was killed, after a brilliant run of fifty-four minutes with- 

 out a check 



Another very fine and sporting run is described by 

 " X'enator " as having taken place from Wolford Wood 

 during the same week, on March 10th. The fox broke 

 covert at the Moreton end of the wood, with the pack close 

 to him, and they ran very fast over Moreton Common, and 

 through Evenlode to Chastleton, and thence to Adlestrop; 

 here they tm-ned back again down the Vale, and over the 

 Evenlode Brook to Broad well, and through Upper and 



* Jack Mytton used to hunt a good deal from Leamington in Mr. Barnard's time. 

 He used to stay at the Bedford Hotel, which was opposite the present Regent. He had 

 a horse called Mad Tom, which lie rode up the steps into the dining-i-oom. He was with 

 difficulty dissuaded from jumping him, or attempting to jump him, out of the window 

 over some iron railings into the street. Mr. Arkwright, of Hattoii, remembers him 

 well, iiiid told me that lie once stopped with liim wlien he had had a bad fall from 

 Shuckburgli, and his horse was hurt. He kept on saying, " Oh, I should not have 

 minded if it had been my own horse, but he was lent mo by a friend." — W. K. V, 



