96 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1883 



and for the excellent sport which has heen shown from that 

 covert." 



An opeu ■winter and a very fine season's sport. Hunted 114 days. Killed 

 seventy-three foxes, and ran tliirty-fi.ve to ground. No blank days. Last day 

 of hunting on April 13th. 



It was a very cold spring, and not very warm 

 afterwards for our summer jaunts, and the autumn in 

 Scotland was very severe, with a great deal of snow on the 

 hills. 1 killed eighty-one stags during thirty-one days deer- 

 stalking, sixty-one of which averaged 15st. 21b. in weight, 

 and on my best day I got ten stags which averaged 

 14st. 71b. in weight.— C. M. 



SEASON 1883-1884. 

 From Lord Willoughby de Broke' s diary : 



First day of cublmntiug, September 13th, at Bowshot. The hai-vest 

 was very late ; a great deal of com still standing. Foxes still in the crops. 



A French baron said he liked the Warwickshu-e hounds 

 the best, but he preferred hunting with Mr. Lort Phillips, 

 because Lord WiUoughby was so " brandy '' 



From the Leamington Sjja Courier : 



The Warwickshire. — The first meet of the season of this "crack" 

 pack was at Wellesbourne last Monday, and judging from the variety of 

 interests represented there, a happy augury for the future of the "noble 

 science " still exists, under Lord "Willoughby at least, despite the carpings of 

 its critics and the milk-and-water attacks of its enemies. Sad indeed will it 

 be for our country when 



The gorse be uprooted, 



The foxhounds be dumb. 



At Wellesbourne were congregated all conditions of men to whom the sport is 

 as the breath of their nostrils — the lord and his lady, the squire, farmer and 

 labourer, the parson, the pviblican, the doctor, lawyer, and others besides from 

 town and country, all met to pay their homage to the master and his hounds. 

 And right well was the establishment of Lord Willoughby turned out. The 

 men were mounted only as servants can be moimted who have the jealous 

 attention of a sportsman — their master. The hounds were in the pink of 

 perfection, and the tout ensemble showed that care and attention had not been 

 wanting in a single particular. Jack Boore still continues as kennel hunts- 

 man, backed by Charles Lowman and E. Parrott. It is pleasant to hear such 

 good reports of the abundance of foxes, and that Lord Willoughby has the 

 entire sympathies and support of the farmers over whose land he rides, and of 

 the landowners whose coverts lie draws. With such good understanding and 

 favourable prospects we shall hope to hear that the season of 1883-84 is in 



