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" ONLY JUST OUT OF A WALK." 



Hai-k I what loud sliouts 

 Rf-oelio tlivoui,'-]! the o-roves ! He breaks away; 

 Shrill horns pruclaiiii his flight, each straggling' hound 

 Strains o'er tlie lawn to reach the distant pack. 

 'Tis triumph all and joy. — Soinerville. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



MH. K. .). BAH.NARl) THE NEW KENNELS AT KINETOX EDWLN" 



STEVENS HIS HUNTING DIARY. 



SEASON 1839-40. 

 ^Ik. R. J. ]x\KNARi), iiftervvards Lord Willoughby de Broke, 

 succeeded to the mastership of the Warwickshire hounds 

 in LS39, and in doing so he came most opportunely to the 

 assistance of the Hunt at a time of considerable difficult}', 

 for no country can he made the most of or hunted in a 

 satisfactory manner by a committee of management. He 

 had for long past been an ardent supporter of the hounds, 

 and he will always be remembered as a genuine and 

 enthusiastic sportsmen, and under his management the 

 country enjoyed a long continuance of fine sport. The 

 subscribers to the hounds and the farmers shortly had 

 an opportunity to show how much they appreciated his 

 determination to show sport, and very able assistance was 

 given to him in his management by his near relations, Mr. 

 Hugh Williams and Mr. Townsend.* With a quick temper 



* Mr. Josepli Townsend was in the Engineers, but ho left the Army rather early, 

 and lived with his father at Honington, where he married, in 1825, the daughter of 

 Prebendary Barnai-d, of Lighthorne. In 18'}5 he had left Wellesboui-ne,and had settled 

 at Alveston, whore he resided till his death. He seems to have had a great share in 

 koopuig the hounds goiug at a rather critical period of their history. He was one of 

 those who helped to pick up Mr. Thoruhill when he had a very bad accident, and 

 smashed in the side of liis face. 



