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I remember we were running in the Yale, and 

 Tliomas, who was then keeper at Chadshunt. viewed the 

 fox near the osiers at the bottom of Water Lane. 

 Lord Willoughby very nearly jumped over him. All 

 he said was : " How long has he gone, Thomas ? " 

 Thomas, without moving or winking, pulls out his 

 watch. "Exactly four minutes, my Lord." His end 

 was sad. He caught diphtheria, with all his familv, 

 at Wroxton, and he was obliged to be moved, but 

 no one would take him in, so great was the scare 

 at the time. He was taken to a hastily constructed 

 bothv, but soon died, as he had lived — in the woods. — 

 W. E. V. 



I remember on one occasion, when the hounds met at 

 Walton, asking the keeper, William Taylor, which covert 

 he thought most certain to hold a fox. He replied, 

 " Eight Men's Marth." I said I thought that there was 

 not enough lying in it, but his answer to that was, 

 " Sometimes the most unlikeliest places are more likeher 

 than the likeHesi:."— C. M. 



One of the l^est riders in the country was Mr. William 

 Chamberlayne, of Stoney Thorpe. He was a light weight, 

 and alwavs rode thoroughbred horses up to list. 71b. He 

 could make them go am-^here, and was a finished horse- 

 man, and invariably managed to get a good start with 

 hounds, and to keep it to the end of many good runs. 

 Living where he did, he had a great experience of hunting 

 in the best part of the Warwickshire country, as 

 well as in the best parts of the P^-tchley, Bicester, and 

 Grrafton Hunts, on most days of the week. He hunted for 

 twenty-eight years until 1S77, when he broke his thigh 

 o^\'ing to a fall over timber off the Braunston dam in the 

 Shuckburgh countrv', and was unable to ride to hounds 

 fifjaiii. He was riding a mare called Isabel, mentioned 

 on a later page. At the time when he was being 

 carried through Braunston Village, when he spoke first 

 after the fall, he said to the first man who came to 

 see what had happened, " Has Charles Onds killed his 



