344 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1875 



October 31st. — Turuecl up stag at Pebwortli. Ran liiin forty-two minutes, 

 and took liim uoav Ulliugtou. Rofle Rupert. 



The opening meet was at Chadshunt on November 

 2nd. Mr. George Smith says : " Ran two rings ; fair sport 

 for time of year." 



The Rev. William S. Miller's diary {continnrd) .- 



November 3rd, Mitford Bridge. — Found iu Toddeidiam Spinney, and liad 

 a good thirty-five minutes to Brailes Hill, fairly running into him in a turnip 

 field on the top. Drew Morlaud's Si)inney, Castle Hill, Comptou Wynniates. 

 Sibford Heath, and the Dingle all blank, and home. Rode Zimri, and had 

 a regular burster from his jumping short. 



Mr. Grporge Smith's diary : 



November 23rd, Wellesbourne. — Drew Spinneys by Charleeoto Mill, and 

 ran a ring up to Wellesbourne Wood, out quick, and away to Knaveidull, and 

 top of Alderminster, with only five up ; over the Stour, and via Ilinington 

 and Stoke Wood, to a drain near Charingworth, about 4 o'clock.* Rode Dick. 



The Rev. William S. Miller's diary {^conthiucd) -. 



December 8th. — This was a day of terrible disaster to the Warwickshire 

 hounds. May it never occur again. Admingtoii. — Rode Middleton. Drew 

 a spinney close to the house, and Preston Bushes blank. Then made our 

 way towards the hills, where a fox was in waiting for us, when suddenly over 

 rolled a hound in violent tetanic spasm. Soon after another rolled over, and 

 within ten miimtes three couples were down. Took the pack back to 

 Admington, and administered .salt and water to the rest, and when I left four 

 hounds Avere dead, one likely to recover, and no fresh symptom apparent in 

 the rest of the pack. On inquiring at the kennels next day, I heard that five 

 couples of hounds were dead, four couples having died before they got home, 

 and one in the course of the night. 



January 7th, 1875. — After nearly a month's hindrance from frost and 

 snow met the hounds at Shvickburgh. A very moderate day's sport. 



From Sir C. Mordaunt's diary : 



On January 11th, 1875, the meet was at Lighthorne. The hounds found 

 at Chesterton Wood, and went away at once, and ran to tlie right of Checkley's 

 Brake, as if for Itchington Holt. l)ut turned again to the right, and ran 

 between there and Cliadshunt, over the Kineton and Harbury road, and thence 

 by BaAvcutt's Covert, leaving it on the left, to Arlescote; thence they ran 

 without any check over the hill and down into the narrow valley by Hornton, 

 to ground near Wroxton New Inn. Tliis was a first class run over the finest 

 country, and hounds ran nearly eleven miles as the crow flies, and not much 



* Mr. Wilson picked up the hunted fox dead the next moming amongst the gorse 

 on Ilmington Hill, and it was hard upon the hounds that they only just missed killing 

 him after a fine run, which at times was very fast. Mr. Lupton went very well on this 

 day on his famous little horse Burton, than wliich no better hunter ever went in any 

 coimtry. 



