52 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1880 



was furnished with flitches of bacon, and the mantelpiece 

 with a fowling piece." — Sporting Magazine, October, 1797. 

 Colonel Norris says the remainder of the article is very 

 interesting. 



SEASON 1880-81. 

 Lord Willoughby's diary {continued) : 



First day'w ciiblmiitiiig, September 13tli, at Chesterton Wood, at 5.30. 

 Killed after cue hour iu the wood. 



Mr. y^^Tier wi'ites as follows : 



That the season of cnbliiiiiting is a pimishiug period to a man wlio works 

 hard and does his duty to his pack all huntsmen know too weU, and tliat is the 

 reason why so few yentlevien huntsmen are in the liabit of cubh anting their 

 own hounds. If a gentleman rises three or four mornings in the week two 

 hours before daybreak, and undergoes the fatigue consequent on hunting a 

 pack of hounds in heavy and deep woodlands, he cuts but a very moderate 

 figure at the head of his own table, and as one or the other must be given up, 

 why, of course, foxhunting goes to the ivall. 



We wish that Mr. V^Tier could have lived to see Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke comply with all these conditions. 

 See also Lord Willoughby's Badminton Magazine article, 

 November, 1895. 



Lord Willoughby's diary (continued) : 



Odoher 22nd, Ragley. — Found at Weethley Wood. Blazing scent. 

 Hounds ran over the dry fallows as if they could see the fox. One hour and 

 thirty minutes, and raced into him in the open at Callow Hill in the 

 Worcestershire country. 



November 16th, Wolford Village. — Found a good fox in the gorse outside 

 Wolford Wood, who went straight away by Tidmington, over Brailes Hill to 

 Traitor's Ford ; a seven-mile point. The hounds ran without a check to the 

 top of Brailes Hill, then hunting became slow on the ploughs. It was a good 

 run, and if we could liave killed woiild have been first rate ; but there never 

 was any real scent, and the burst up to Brailes was occasioned by the 

 fox going quite straight, and keeping the grass. Rode Bulrush and 

 Brownie. 



November 19th, Broughton Castle. — Found at the Osiers, and away at 

 once over the brook towards Tadmarton ; the fox was headed in the road, and 

 recrossed the brook, and ran along it as if for Wycombe Park. About two 

 fields from the mill he crossed the brook again, and made for Barman's 

 Gorse. Here he was headed again, and made for Bloxham Village ; leaAang 

 this just on his left, he made for Wiggington Heath, and a check occurred 

 close to Garrett's Bushes. In casting tlui pack, a fresli fox jumped up 

 among them, and took them at a rare pace ])y Wiggington Heath and Wood- 

 hill Farm to Swerford, and on to Great Tew in the Heythrop country, where 

 they marked him to . ground, after running hard for three hours. Rode 

 Brownie and Banshee. 



