336 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [1872-187» 



very keen sportsman, a capital shot, and very popular in 

 his regiment. 



SEASON 1872-78. 



From Air. (leorge Smith's diary. 



December 2nd, 1872, Ihnington. — Found at Roug-li Hill. Ran under 

 Ettingioii Village, fast by Lainbeote, and back through Ettington Park to top 

 of KnaA-enhill. Oidy huntsman, Dudley, self, and Avhip with them ; quite lost 

 tield ; forty-five minutes. Second. Pillerton Gorse ; away over Pillei-tou 

 Brook for Oxhill, turned lialf a mile, and l)ack on to near Butler's Marston ; 

 forty-one minutes ; very good ; only ten left to see it. Rode Roscoe. 



Diary of the Rev. William S. Miller [continued) : 



December 10th, 1872, Weston House. — Rode Sunshine. Foimd in 

 Wolford Heath, ran a very fast ring round Weston Park to our starting 

 point, thence under Long Compton Wood, by the end of Long Compton 

 Tillage, to ground in a stone pit near Barton Grove; a very good hour and 

 five minutes. Came home, the hounds going to Barton Grove, and having a 

 very fine run from there bj- Wolford Wood, Adlestrop, and Ickliam, close up 

 to Stow. 



December 21st, Burton Toll Bar. — Rode Clashmore. Found in Knott's 

 Gorse ; went straight away across the railway towards Itcliington Holt, 

 to the left, skirting Gaydon Cojjpice ; thence parallel with the Warwick Road, 

 through Chesterton Wood to the Green, and killed ; a really good and fast 

 thirty-eight minutes. 



In 1872 and 1873 George Bollem and J. Perry were 

 first and second whips to Charles Orvis. 

 From Sir C. Mordannt's diary : 



On January 3rd, 1873, the hounds had a splendid run late in the day. 

 We had been having very little sport, having been running about Edge Hill 

 most of the day, and most of the field had gone home. A fox went away 

 from Svm Rising, and only Orvis and one other gentleman and myself got 

 away with the hounds ; they ran, leaving Tysoe on the right, nearly to Oxhill, 

 thence over the Banbury and Stratford road, on the left of Pillerton Gorse, 

 nearly to Walton Wood. Tliere was no check for fifty minutes over a grass 

 country. Rode Statesman. 1 had first seen this horse in Mr. Cox's stable in 

 Stamford-street, when five years old; he was in miserable condition, and 

 Mr. Cox told me that he had come from Germany, and was to be sold for 

 artillery purposes, but that I might if I liked have him on trial, and he did 

 not ask much for him. He was sent to me. I bought him, and he made into 

 a fine hunter. He was a bro^vn horse with hogged mane, and 1 rode him for 

 ten seasons. When he was sixteen I was hixnting him with '" the Bicester." 

 and after jumping a fence which he hardly seemed to touch, 1 was told that 

 he was staked ; the stake had gone in veiy deep, and after getting him home 

 with great care the wound was sewn up, but he died in a few days. 



Hev. William S. Miller's diary [continued) : 



January 10th, 1873, Oxhill Toll Bar. — Found in Pillerton Gorse; 

 crossed the road towards Oxhill, back by the Toll Bar, over Herd Hill 



