324 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1869 



Mr. Ernest Cassel was the only gentleman who broke 

 this record. — W. R. V. 



A very good story is told of this Mr. Rainbow^ 

 mentioned above, who used to hunt a good deal when he 

 was a younger man, but afterwards was not quite so 

 keen. Many years later he took a farm at Barton, 

 and was Major Wilberforce Bird's bailifE as well. 

 It was when the present Lord Willoughby hunted 

 the hounds, and there was a very celebrated dog in 

 the pack called Rainbow, a dark black and tan hound, by 

 Mr. Muster's Forager. He was a famous drawer,, 

 and very keen on a fox, and was quite a nuisance at a drain 

 or when they had killed. They ran into a fox in the 

 kitchen garden at Barton House, and it was some time 

 before the staff got up. A great many foot people, 

 amongst them Mr. Rainbow, turned up in that strange 

 way that foot people always do when a fox is killed. 

 Presently Lord Willoughby and his men arrived, and there 

 was some confusion in getting the fox out through a 

 narrow doorway. His lordship was heard to exclaim, 

 "Look here. Jack, we shall never do any good till we get a 

 rope round that Rainbow's neck." People say that our 

 friend walked off looking rather scared, and fingering his 

 neck. It's what they call " ben trovato." — W. R. V. 



Mr. Luj)ton, of Stratford -on -Avon, was a good sports- 

 man, and a capital rider to hounds. He rode a thorough- 

 bred horse called Burton, which carried him always in 

 the first flight. He was the author of several good 

 hunting poems and songs. 



Some of the best riders amongst the farmers were Mr. 

 Wilson, of Ilmington, and his son Mr. E. P. Wilson, the 

 famous steeplechase rider ; Mr. Clifford, of the Mill, 

 Clifford Chambers, who rode a capital chesnut mare ; Mr. 

 James Milward, of Bidford ; Mr. Samuel Berridge, of 

 Drayton ; Mr. Greorge Smith, of Ailston, on his roan 

 chesnut horse ; Mr. Boddington, of Cubbington ; Mr. 

 Sarjeant, of Long Itchington, who hunted for more than 

 fifty years; Mr. E. P. Knott, of the Grange, Fenny 



