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leaving it ou tho left, over the m^er half-way between Aldenuinster and 

 Taltou, over part of Crimscote Downs, and straight for Meon Hill. On 

 Hearing Adniington the pack bore to the left, and went at the back of 

 Ilmington Rectory, left Stoke Wood on the right, went right over Knebsworth , 

 and sank the hill as if for Blackwell Bnshes. Here the fox was getting beat, 

 and after a sliort circle iu the Vale he made for tho hills again. The pack 

 gained on him, and he was almost in view, but he managed to save his life in 

 an earth jnst beyond Foxcote, after a very fine rnn of one honr and twenty 

 minutes. Only five riders out of a large field saw the finish. Rode Bayleaf 

 and Be Qnick. 



From the LeatiiUigtuii Spa Conner : 



The Warwickshire "had an old-fashioned run on Monday, January BOtli. 

 The meet was at Ettington Village. They found in one of Mr. West's 

 coverts, and, after a good deal of knocking about in Ettington Grove and 

 Park, killed. Found again at Alvestou Pastures, and oiit towards Loxley ; 

 turned short back on the higher ground past Hounds Hill to Alderminster. 

 Here they crossed the river, and raced away over Crimscote Downs to the 

 Ilmington Hills. Without any check they kept on thi'ough Foxcote, till, at 

 tlie other side of the hill, the gallant fox saved his brush by going to ground, 

 not far in front of the liounds. We do not often chronicle names, but it will 

 be oidy fair to state that only five sportsmen were anywhere near the pack 

 when the fox went to ground — Lord Willoughby, Sir C. Mordaunt, Mr. 

 H. S. Lucy, Mr. Grazebrook, and Mr. Lowe. We do not often run this line 

 now, biit it has been remarked to us that it is a familiar one in the pages of 

 that curioiis and interesting old book, " The Warwickshire Hunt," and it is 

 worthy of note how straight and stout the foxes in Warwickshire have been 

 running this year. They take a deal of catching, and so do the hounds when 

 the scent at all sei-ves them. We wish someone could be found to bring out 

 a fresh volume of the above-mentioned book, carrying on the record of sport 

 in Warwickshii-e from the year 1836 (when Mr. Thornhill gave up the hounds) 

 to tlie present date. 



Lord Willoughby de Broke 's diary : 



February 27id, Loiver Shuckhurgh. — Found the second fox at Ladbroke, 

 ran hard for twenty minutes in the covert, then got away, and raced him for 

 twenty-three minutes, without a check, over the best country ; not a ploughed 

 field, and no ridge and furrow. The fox beat the pack by going to ground in 

 a drain close to Calcote Spinney, after the best twenty -three minutes ever 

 seen. 



I remember this run well, as I had a mount on my 

 wife's old black horse, Shillelagh, and a better never crossed 

 a country. Grot into slight trouble, in company with poor 

 Gilbert Leigh, for being too near the hounds after they 

 crossed the road. Jack Boore, on a favourite little brown 

 horse, jumped some audacious big fences. This is one 

 of the two runs mentioned by Lord Willoughby in his 



