152 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1842 



l)a(l Ijoy to ^'o to school. A quotation will apply from 

 Shakespeare's " Seven Ages of Man ": 



The whining schoolboy with his satchel 



And shining morning face, creeping like snail 



Unwillingly to school. 



One day his father sent him to school under the charge 

 of the village policeman ; we are sorry to say that Edwin 

 fastened on to his custodian's ear. He must have heen 

 quite young when he obtained a situation as whip in the 

 Duke of Grafton's establishment. In the year 1842, when 

 only twenty-nine years of age, he came as huntsman to 

 Mr. Barnard, and for nine years he carried the horn with 

 the Warwickshire with never varying success. He owed a 

 good deal of this to his determination always to be with 

 his hounds and to his intense love of the sport, his whole 

 heart being in it, and some say to the way in which he 

 was helped and seconded by Morris, the first whip. It 

 was a well known saying that it must be a good fox 

 which could get away from Ted Stevens and Morris. 

 The latter who, when Mr. Barnard used to hunt the 

 whole country, carried the horn on two clays in the 

 northern district, used to act as a sort of telegraphist 

 to Stevens. We have often heard the late Lord 

 Willoughl^y (Mr. Barnard) say that when hounds were 

 at fault and Stevens had made his casts, if unsuccess- 

 ful, which was not often, he used to say, " I wonder 

 where Morris is ! " and eight times out of ten there 

 was heard the well-known holloa which soon set the 

 ball rolling again, generally to the discomfiture of poor 

 reynard. 



When Stevens had been hunting the hounds for about 

 five years, at a meeting of the Leamington Sporting 

 Committee, held at the Bath Hotel on the .20th of May, 

 1S4(), it was unanimously resolved : " That the sum of five 

 pounds be given from the fund to open a subscription for 

 the purpose of presenting Stevens, the huntsman of the 

 Warwickshire hounds, with a silver tankard or cup, and 

 the two whippers-in with such presents as the committee 



