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THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



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four days this seasou instead of tive, wliicli tlicy have liitliertobeon apeustoinod 

 to do ; they have fifty-five couples of lioumls in tlie Kiueton keuuels, and killed 

 forty-four brace of foxes last season. A clever instance of " thought and 

 action " was displayed by the Warwickshire first whi}) some five seasons ago. 

 A fox had been twice found in a small spinney, and after a brilliant niu over 

 a fine grass vale, had saved his life on each occasion by reaching an unstopped 

 oartli ill a distant part of the country. They found him a third time, and the 

 whip no sooner recognised his friend than, recollecting the earth, he put his 

 horse's head straight for it, and reacliiug it, jumped in up to his top ])oots 

 just in time to stop the fox out, who, by-the-bye, almost ran against him with 

 liis nose as he passed over, and never went to ground again. Tlie poet. 

 Somerville, author of " The Chase," " lived and hunted " in this country. 



Edwin Stevens kept a continuous diary of liiinting, 

 whicli has been kindly lent to us by Mrs. Middleton, and 

 from which we have taken many extracts. Since Warwick- 

 shire became a huntinty country, there was no better hand 

 than Ted Stevens at 



SWISHIXG A RASPER. 



