190 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. isu> 



away hotweou the 2 Pillcrtous to OsJiillinill Turned to the Left l)y Miimfords 

 Spiny into the Oak Fields & one rin<^' thei'e & away by W Brailes & over 

 Kinoton & Marston Field Pointing to Pillerton gorse Cnrved to the Left by 

 Oxhill mill to Hadliill & Cni'ved to the Left into Kineton Holt & ran thfM-e a 

 hour & Killed him there 2 hours 45 minutes. 



From the Leamington Spa Courier, Feb. 1 0th : 



The Warwickshire hounds met at Woodcote on Monday last, and a 

 greater number of red coats never assembled in this locality. Fern Hill was 

 drawn blank, but on reaching Long Meadow out bolted a gallant fox, heading 

 in a straight direction for about twenty miles to Mr. Newdigate's, Arbury 

 Hall, where he turned, and w^as killed near Kersley Church, five miles 

 l)eyond Coventry, the run occupying tAvo hours and twenty minutes. There 

 were a nice few up at the finish, but many horses had to be sent home by 

 train. This is but one among the many good things by which the Warwick- 

 .shire keep up their established reputation. 



We copy the following from the diary ms an instance of 

 an unnsually blank day : 



2or/i Wroxton New Inn. — Drew Taylors Bushes & Wilcox & Garrets 

 Bushes and Hanwell Spiny & Counseller Curtis's gorse MoUington liill 

 Harbagesgorse Edgehill Kineton Holt & the Oak Field Blank k had a Blank 

 day. 



March 12tli Little Alne. — Drew the gorse Blank Found in Spernal Park 

 & ran there 20 minutes & away to the gorse & away by Alne village & by the 

 mill over the Canal by the Golden Cross & into the Cow Bower where he 

 Waited for us & ran A^erey hard through the Bushes & along the Meadows 

 Pointing to Bladons wood & ran into him 2 hours. 



22fZ Sititterfield. — DroAV Luscomb wood & Linge Furlong Blank Found 

 in Calloways rough & ran aboute a hour gave it up for a Anxen Found again 

 in Beirly Bushes & Broake away through Cow Bower & through by the 

 Golden Cross acrosst Edstone Park Skirted the Corner of Austy Avood acrot 

 Mr. Whittingtons farm, CurA'ed to the Left over the Canal through the 

 Reids Wooton Hall & along the meadowes nearly to Henley & over the 

 Birmingham road tlirough mays Avood & Banhams into Spernal Park to 

 ground 1 hour 30 minutes got him out & Killed. 



23f? Epioell Village. — Foimd in a small Patch of gorse liy the cottage & 

 ran in and aboute Wigington Heath a hour to ground got him out & Turned 

 him DoAvn at hell gorse & ran him 5 or 6 Fields & Killed him Found again 

 in the Hook Norton Spiny & ran by Aston & Witchford village into the 

 wood & 3 rings in the wood & away through Long Compton wood Haywoods 

 gorse <fe over the Field by Barton & through the old Cover & along the top of 

 Woolfoi-d wood curved to the right tlirough Leamington Coppices Pointing 

 to Todenham CurA^ed to the Left through Dunson by Leamington Pointing 

 avstou Haile & Killed him one Field from the Morton road. 



On the 27th, according to Stevens' diary, the hounds 

 ran by " where Thornals gorse was," and we hear no more 

 of it. [I fancy it was in Kirby field, near where my father 

 planted a gorse covert, which came to nothing. — W. R. V.] 



