FACIXG A BROOK. ' 



See ! liow tliey range 

 Dispers'd, how liusily this way and that 

 They cross, examining with curious nose 

 Each likely haunt. Hark ! on the drag I hear 

 Their doubtful notes, preluding to a cry 

 More nol)ly full, and swell'd with every mouth. 



Somerville. 



CHAPTER IX. 



STEVEN^ DIARY"'' MR. HUlill WILLIAMS AND LADBROKE 



GORSE THE HILLMORTON RUN. 



'Ynv. first c.vtract from Edwin Stevens' diary shows that the 

 first season of his hunting the Warwickshire hounds was 

 1S4.2, when, during- twenty-six days out hunting, he killed 

 twenty foxes, and ran fourteen to ground and left them. 



Nov. 5th, 1842, Wroxton Abbey. — Foimd and ran A ring in the Plantations 

 to ground under A tre. Bolted him and Killed him. Found again in 

 Witliecomb Gorse, and crossed the Brook and Left Broughton village and 

 Castle on tlie Left and Tadmarton and Wiggiugton on the right Pointing to 

 Great Tow and Bare to the right and Left the Heythrop New gorse covert 

 on the Left and Buttermilk Coverts also to ground in Swarford Park a hour 

 and a half very good hunting run. 



21.s/. Chesterton Mill. — Found A fox in Ladbroock Spinny and Hxmted 

 him very Pretty to the New covert at Burton hill to ground 40 Minutes. 

 Found in Itchington Heath and Uuted him by verners Gorse and Chadshuut 

 lieatli to Cliadshunt and Turned to the right by Pool and hill fields to 



We pive Stevens' diary verbatim, exactly a.s he wrote it, and in lii.s own spelling 



and vocabulary. 



