124 THE WARWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1836 



SEASON 1834-35. 



Mr. Thornhill continued, for a second season, to be 

 master of the Warwickshire ; Will Boxall was huntsman ; 

 Tom Day first whip ; and Jack Stevens second whip. The 

 stables were furnished with the best cattle, the men well 

 mounted, the hounds in the finest condition, and every 

 arrangement promised to furnish that sport by which this 

 country has become so distinguished.* 



Sir Walter Carew, Bart., of Haccombe and Marley, 

 South Devon, was for many years a well-known Meltonian. 

 He was a heavy weight, but a very hard rider, and in his 

 best days nothing could stop him, while in later years, 

 when he hunted a good deal in Warwickshire t with his 

 two daughters, he showed a marvellous knowledge of the 

 country, and had a wonderful knack of getting to hounds. 

 He rode horses of great substance and breeding, one of 

 the best of which was " Old England." When he gave up 

 competing he rode in corduroy trousers with an oak stick, 

 with which he used to fling the gates open,^ and away he 

 went. He kept hounds in South Devon for many years. 

 He had a celebrated huntsman, Beale, who w^as quite a 

 character. Beale never would have a whipper-in. He 

 always said hounds were just as much afraid of being lost 

 as men, and that they w^ould come better to his voice and 

 horn without a chap behind rating them on. There was a 

 gentleman in Sir Walter's Hunt who changed his name 

 from Taylor to Tayleur. This gentleman was riding home 



* A week or two before the commencement of the present season (November, 1834), 

 Captain Cunynghame, of Wellesbourne, lost four valuable hunters. A flue from the 

 brewhouse, in the dead of the night, partially set fire to the stabling, and the poor 

 horses were suffocated and scorched to death. Captain Cunynghame is a gentleman 

 highly respected, and this accident and misfortune excited the greatest sympathy and 

 regret in this and the neighbouring hunts. A wag, although sorry for the gallant 

 Captain's loss, could not suppress his joke on the occasion, and he wrote : 



I've heard of hunters being fir'd, 



When ring-bon'd, spavin d, curb'd, or lame; 



But firing all the stud at once 



Is what I call a burning shame. — Tom Pipes. 



t Sir Walter said that in all his Melton days, he never saw three young fellows ride 

 better or straighter to hounds than Mr. W. H. Chamberlaj-ne, Captain E. Raleigh 

 King, and Mr. H. Spencer Lucy used to do with the Warwickshire. 



