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EUN FEOM BEAUCHAMP SPINNEY. 



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On March 3rd the hounds met at Goldicote, and fuund a fox at Alveston 

 Pastures, with which nothing much was done. They found a fox at 

 Beauchamp Spinney, and ran very fast across the road to Alderminster, and 

 through Rough Hill, and across Eatington ; thence over the high road neai-Iy 

 to Fulready, where tlu'y turned to the left, and passed Pillerton on the right, 

 and went over Herd Hill into Kineton Holt. The time up to this point was 

 thirty-eight minutes, and there was a welcome check in the covert, the pace 

 having been tremendous. When the hounds again went away, they continued 

 at a slower pace, but over a perfect line down the valley, and across the 

 Banl)m-y and Kineton road, and by Old Leys and OAvlington, and ran to ground 

 at the Burton Hills. The distance from point to point is eleven miles, and 

 about fourteen as hounds ran, in an hotu* and twenty-five minutes. Rode 

 Maratlion. He was a grey horse, which I had bought from Mr. Cin-bett 



WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY. 1872. 

 Me. H. Spencer Lucy. 



Holland, and I remember, when I went into the stable-yard at Adraington, 

 this horse was beiiig shown to Mr. Park Yates, the master of the Cheshire 

 hounds, but he declined to moimt him because he kicked a little when ridden 

 by the rough rider. Mr. Corl)ett Holland then asked me to get on him, which 

 was perhaps as well, for I do not think he could have carried Mr. Park 

 Yates' weight, although he was up to 1-i.st., and full of quality. I gave 300?. 

 for him, and in the end did not consider the price too much, as he can-ied 

 me well for ten seasons. 



In tlie autumu of this year (1S72) the Hon. Eobert 

 Ee}Tiell Verney, lieutenant in the 52nd Oxfordshire Light 

 Infantry, died of fever in the barracks at Cork. He was a 



