17() THE WARWKJKSHIRE HUNT. [1847 



A])<)iit tliis time Stevens had a very l)a(l Tall, and there 

 is no entry in the diary l)et\veen February nth and tlie 

 15th ; l)ut the h<)un(]s were hunted during the interval by 

 Morris, and had a splendid run on the lOth, the following' 

 account of which has been given to us by Captain Jennings 

 (late of the 7th Madras Cavalry) : 



On February 10th, 1847, the meet was at Wroxton 

 Abl)ey, and Morris, in the absence of Stevens, hunted the 

 hounds. They found at Withycombe, and ran very fast 

 by North Newington and Broughton Castle to Wykham 

 Brook, where there was a clieck. Morris cast the hounds 

 to the left, but one couple ci'ossed the brook and hitoifthe 

 line of the fox on the other side, and as soon as they were 

 joined by the rest they again began to run hard. Had it 

 not been for the check, perhaps more of the riders would 

 have got over the water, which was bank high and is at 

 all times a very big jump.* As it was. Captain Jennings 

 alone jumped it clear, and Jack Hicks, the second whip, 

 got over with a fall. The latter told Captain Jennings that 

 he thought he had better stop the hounds, but he replied : 

 " You had much better not do so, because they may kill 

 their fox after a fine run, and you will get the credit of it." 

 So Jack left them alone, and they ran on without a check by 

 Wiggington Heath to Swerford, and from thence through 

 (Treat Tew Park, and they killed their fox three miles 

 beyond it in the open close to Enstone, in the Heythrop 

 country, having run thirteen miles from point to point in an 

 hour and a half with only one check. Mr. Barnard alone 

 came up after an interval of twenty minutes. Captain 

 Jennings rode an Irish grey horse, only 15 hands high, a 

 portrait of which we have seen in his house at Milverton 

 Farm. After resting the horse for an hour at Banbury, 

 he rode him back to Leamington, a distance of thirty-two 

 miles from Enstone, and he did not reach home until ten 



* It was very unfortunate for Morris that he did not get over the Wykham Brook, 

 and we shoukl have much liked to have heard the account of the run (certainly the best 

 f)f tlie season) given by Jack Hicks to Stevens and Moi-ris, and how he had killed the 

 fox far into Jem Hills' country — a rare event in the anuals of the Warwickshire hounds. 



