1851] CAPTAIN CUNNINGHAM. 215 



the roof was off the stable, and he added, " How do you 

 manage to prevent your horses from catching cold ! " 

 Mr. Hawkes replied, " I think there is nothing like fresh 

 air for horses." 



One of the hardest and best riders amongst the farmers 

 hunting at this time was Mr. Harry Horley, and he hunted 

 Mr. Bradley's stag hounds from Ufton. His father, his 

 l)r()ther, and himself occupied nearly the whole of the land 

 in the parish. 



Captain Cunningham, of Wellesbourne House, was very 

 fond of the sport. He was much addicted to relating after- 

 dinner stories of sport which he Inrd seen in India, Avhen in 

 the l.^tli Lancers. He told me that on one occasion he was 

 out shooting in that country, and carried a gun with one 

 ])arrel made for shot and the other for a rifle bullet. A 

 snipe got up, and he iired the bullet at it by mistake, but 

 he killed it, and the report of the gun caused a tiger at 

 once to break covert, and he killed it with the snipe shot. 

 He added, " Would you believe it, I turned round to give 

 orders to my negro servant, and his curly black hair had 

 turned as white as snow." After this the Caj)tain was 

 usually called by his friends "Bangalore Cunning- 

 ham."*— C. M. 



Frorn Lhe Lpamington Spa Co/frier : 



January 17th, 185'2. — Hunt Ball. — This took place at Stvatfoi-d-ou- 

 Avon on Wednesday last, there were nearly 500 persons present, and it Avas 

 notable for the beauty of the decorations, which comprised a fox breaking 

 covert closely followed by the hounds, a deer and fawn, an otter, grouse, a 

 swan surprised by the fox. &c. 



April 10th, 1852. — A public meeting was held at tlie Regent Hotel, 

 Leamington, on Wednesday, J. Hitcliman, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Jeffery 

 reported that Mr. Barnard had consented, during the next season, to hunt the 

 North Warwickshire country two days and the South Warwickshire country 

 three days a week, with meets as near as practicable to the town of Leamington, 

 on being guaranteed a sum of 350/. l)y the professional and trading inhabitants 

 of Leamington. 



Ben Moro-an succeeded Stevens as huntsman, and this, 

 no doubt, was a very difficult undertaking. He was a 

 good and painstaking sei-vant, but, as many another man 



* This is a regular old " Joe Miller," but C. M. has done good service if he has at 

 last run it to ground. — W. R. V. 



