IHK KKNNK1>S. KINKTON. 



CHAPTER X. 



Better to hunt in fields for health xmbought. 

 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. 



KDWIN STKVENS' DIARY CONTINUED CAPTAIN JENNIN(;s AND 



JACK HICKS — PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. R. J. BARNARD — ■ 

 OTHER NOTED RIDERS. 



I REMEMBER lit tliis time, wheii at home for the holidays, 

 jj-oing out hunting on a pony, and a fox, which undoubiedly 

 was a bagman, was enlarged in Bath Hill and killed after 

 running over two fields. T aseei-tained in time, as soon as 

 I got to understand hunting, that foxes had been syste- 

 matically killed at Walton by the keepers, and that the farm 

 bailiff was perfectly aware of this. I shortly had the 

 keepers discharged without a character, and we soon l)egan 

 to find plenty of foxes. 



January 21st 1845 We-ston House. — Found and coped a fox iu tlic Fatlicst 

 Combe. Found again in the Combe & ran Pointing to Witliford Curved 

 up the liill Leveing Roleright on the right Pointing to Swerford Curved to 

 the right to Heytliorpe Park to ground 36 minutes as liard as hounds coidd go. 



After the first fox had been chopped, no doubt another 

 was found in cme of the Rollwrio-ht Coombs, and this w as a 

 very fast and brilliant run. The hounds went at best ])ace 

 over the boundary high road, which Jem Hills said the 



