COMPTON VERNEY. 



Tlie dusky niglit rides down the sky, 



And ushers in the morn, 

 The hoimds all rise in joyous cry. 



The huntsman winds his horn. 



The stately homes of England, 



How beautiful they stand I — Mrs. He mans. 



THE 



ANNALS OF THE WARWICKSHIIIE HUNT 



CHAPTER XY. 



LORD AVILLOUGHBY DE BROKE HIS HUNTING DIARY HIS 



IMPROVEMENT OF THE PACK OXHILL GORSE THE 



GOLDEN CROSS GORSE JACK BOORE SEVEN SEASONS OF 



GOOD SPORT THE LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD BYE 



DAY AT DORSINGTON. 



At the end of the season Mr. Lucy resigned the master- 

 ship, and was succeeded by Lord AYilloughby de Broke. 

 Now commenced a new and brilliant era in the annals 

 of the Warwickshire Hunt. 'There were, no doubt, 

 some who had found no fault Avith the slackness of 

 the management during the latter part of Mr. Lucy's 

 mastership, but there were others to whom every detail 

 of a day's hunting was of keen interest. The entire 



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