1878] MR. CHANDOS POLE. 13 



Mr. John Mordauut, Mr. George Norris. Mr. Baec'hu.s and a friend of his, a 

 gentleman whom I did not know, from the well known Banbury side, 

 and Mr. Merry, who rode a horse, a first-rate grey, in both runs. Captain 

 Taylor, R.H.A., went well also, but could not numage to get to the eiul. 

 Orvis, the huntsman, was well with his hounds all the day — St. Thomas's day, 

 the shortest in the year — and darkness alone saved this gallant fox's life. The 

 distance traA^elled from Page's Gorse to Idlicote is at the least, on the 

 Ordnance map, nine miles from point to point, and the flying ladies did that 

 point in fifty minutes. One episode before I conclude. Xight had closed in 

 when the noble master, riding back with his hounds to Kiueton, saw a well- 

 known figure on a tired grey. Who could it be ? Why, the quondam master. 

 Billy North, who had galloped many a mile after us, and with the pluck of 

 an old one, struggled on to see the end of one of the finest runs his old hunt 

 can boast of. ^^ Old Zingaeo. 



From Lord Willoiighby cle Broke 's diary : 



January 1st, 1878, Wolfonl Village. — Away directly from Wolford 

 Wood, and ran to Weston Heath. Whichford Wood, leaving which we got en 

 terms with the fox, but the scent was too bad to press him. We continued 

 ringing abovit, at one time getting nearly to Wark Gorse, and at another 

 within a mile of Wiggington Heath, and were nearly getting l)ack to 

 Wolford Wood again. At last the hounds got ujj to the fox, and ran into him 

 in Weston Park, after running from eleven o'clock till three. 



January 4:th, Lower Shuclchurcjh. — Found at Caldecott Spinney, and away 

 directly very fast in the direction of Leicester's Piece ; tui'ned to the right 

 after going about a mile and a half, and ran pretty straight to Sawbridge, 

 wliere the fox crossed the river, and immediately recrossed it and pointed for 

 Flecknoe. The hounds came to the first check close to the canal, just under 

 riecknoe Village, after a good thirty minutes. They hit off the scent to the 

 right, and went on at a good hunting pace along the canal side as far as 

 Shucklmrgh Hill, where the fox went to ground in a rabbit hole, and was dug 

 out and killed. Got away at a great pace with the second fox, but got on to a 

 stale line at the first check ; hunted slowly by Radbourne and Priors Hard- 

 wick to Boddington. Rode Bounder and Ziugaro. 



January Itlu Upton House. — Found a fox in a patch of gorse near 

 Shenuiugtou Irons, and ran to Shennington and back. Found at Miller's, and 

 the fox sunk the hill at once and pointed for Burton Dassett, turned again to 

 the right, went up the hill and down the Vale the other side, leaving Hornton 

 to the right, and kept on pi'etty straight nearly to Claj^don Hill, the hounds 

 all the time going a fair pace. In about a mile from Claydon we turned to 

 the right, and ran, leaving Balscott on the left, going right by Meddam's 

 Gorse and Ratley, to Miller's Gorse again, right through it, and at a great 

 pace to Kineton Holt. Skirting that covert and the gorse, the hounds again 

 pointed for Knowle End, and i-an into their fox as he was trying to re-enter 

 the covert in the middle of the Banbury Road, after running two hours and 

 twenty minutes, a great deal of it at a good pace. Rode Dynamite and 

 Charlier. 



At this time Mr. Chandos Pole used to iuint 

 occasionally with the Warwickshire Hounds. He was a 



