92 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1883 



'XI. 



Now I'll give you a toast whicli is equally suited, 



To bumpers of claret or tankards of ale : 

 Here's haj)piness, health, and long life to the Master, 



And long may he rule o'er the Warwickshire Vale. 



The original negative of this very excellent photograph 

 was executed for some agricultural journal. Lord North 

 very kindly put on his hunting coat and cap, thinking that 

 only the upj)er jDart of his person would appear. The 

 photograph was, however, taken full length, and presented 

 rather a comical appearance, as his lordship had on a pair 

 of trousers, with the bottoms turned up, and a very old pair 

 of shooting boots. It appeared thus in the journal in 

 question, we are told. 



January 18f/^, Lower ShucMurgh. — Found at the hill ; got away with a 

 fox with nine couples of hounds, and ran towards Priors Marston, but turned 

 to the left over the Brauuston Brook, and pointed for Staverton ; the fox turned 

 short back, and, casting back, we met the other hounds being Ijrought on by 

 the second whip ; wo also met the fox, and got on good terms with him, and 

 ran him iip to the Daventry Road, as if for Brauuston Gorse ; he was headed 

 by the second horseman, and turned up for Staverton Village, and then to the 

 right for Catesby, near which place the hoimds marked him to ground in a 

 drain in the Bicester country, after running one hour and a quarter. Found 

 again at the hill, and ran there for some time ; at last he broke in the 

 direction of Fleckuoe with the hounds close to him. He left Flecknoe on the 

 right, and made for Brauuston Gorse, and was run into in the middle of a 

 grass field in the Pytchley country, after twenty-five minutes, withoiit a check. 

 The first whip got a l^ad fall near Flecknoe, receiving concussion of the brain 

 and breaking two ribs. Ada and Tally did first rate all day. 



January 22nd, Goldicote. — Found at Wellesbourne Wood, ran to 

 Smatchley and back, and out at tlie bottom of the wood, and away to 

 Charlecote Park, across that and Mickle Meadow, and through Alveston 

 Osiers, and over Alveston Hill, thence to Tiddiugton, but did not cross the 

 Stratford Road ; he turned a sort of ring back to the Pastures, but could not 

 reach them, and was run into in the open, about two fields from the covert, 

 after one hour and ten minutes. Found again at Brickkiln Gorse, and away 

 close to the fox, and raced him towards Comliroko New Covert ; he turned 

 back on Oxhouse Farm just before he got to the brook, and went by Lower 

 Pillertou, through Brickkihi again, and nearly to Fullready, turned to the 

 left, and went straight to Oxliill Gorse. Time up to that, one hour without a 

 check. My horse was blown, and I got into the Oxhill Brook, which delayed 

 me for five minutes, and when I got to the covert, tlie hounds had thrown up 

 in the middle of it, just over the artificial eartli, which was stopped at one end, 

 and the covert was so thick that I could not find the other, so could not tell 

 what had become of the fox, but they had either killed him and eaten him, or 



