112 THE WAEWICKSHIEE HUNT. [lesi 



Coppice, skirting Iteliing-ton Holt, without any cliack, and on towards 

 Kuiglitcote ; but turned to the right, and left Bawcutt's Covert just to the 

 left, crossed the East and "West Junction Railway, passed Marlborough on 

 the right, and Old Leys on tha left, and turned to the right just before reach- 

 iag the Banbury and Kineton road, and left Owlington on the right; recrossed 

 the railway and the Chadshunt Brook, and crossed the Kineton and Gaydon 

 road to the right of Kineton. Up to this time they had been running for an 

 hour without a check. Loose horses and dismounted riders were to be seen in 

 every fi :»ld, and only about ten people remained with the hounds out of a large 

 field. In jumping out of the next field to the road, Lord Willoughby ds 

 Broke"s second horse, which had carried him in the first flight throughout, 

 injured himself at the fence, burst an artery, and died. He asked me, in case 

 I should get my second horse, and should see the end of the run, to bring the 

 hounds home. After crossing the road, the pack ran on as hard as ever to 

 Veruey's Gorse, through which they went. Here Mr. Grazebrook, who had 

 Ijeen going well on one of my horses, saw what he thought was a fresh fox go 

 away, with the hounds close to him. Next morning a fox was seen by the 

 shepherd to ci-awl out of an old barn very tired within one field of the gor!?e. 

 This was no doubt the hunted fox, who had done his utmost and saved his life, 

 for he could not have stood before the pack any longer if we had not changed 

 foxes. •The chase continued to the right of Lighthorne Village nearly into 

 Chesterton Wood. Here the pack swung round to the right in Old Sitch 

 Field, and went by Kingston, leaving Harbury Heath on the left, over 

 Christmas Hill, left Itehingtou Holt on the right, and crossed the Kineton and 

 Gaydon road. Here they ran rather slower over three ploughed fields. At 

 this time only Mr. Lycett Green (now nuister of the York and Ainsty Hounds), 

 and Mr. Grazebrook, and myself remained with the hounds,* and my second 

 horse Cheviot was well brought up just at the right t"me. I shall never 

 forget the delight of that moment, as I knew then that a period of time had 

 arrived for me which had not occurred before, and was not likely to occxir 

 again during a lifetime. The master, who had got on his first horse again, 

 had persevered on the line, and had seen my second hoi-.seman going into 

 Chesterton Wood ; he told him that he was quite sure the hounds had gone 

 tjwards Itchington Holt, aad it Avas entirely owing to him that Cheviot was 

 brought to me. He was a nearly thoroughbred chesnut horse by Stockinger, 

 and was not unlike his grandsire, Stockwell. Mr. Green and Mr. Grazebrook, 

 in order to ease their horses, went into the bridle road leading to the Water- 

 gall Lane, and I went on alone with the hounds. As soon as they got on to 

 the grass again they began to run as fast as before over a beautiful 

 line of country, pDiuting for Bawcutt's Covert, but when near it they 

 turned to the left, passed Knightcote on the left, and ran so nearly 

 to Fenny Compton, that Mr. Knott, when on his farm, heard them 

 plainly ; they then turned left handed, and crossed the Watergall Brook 

 and the Great Western Railway. On the line the j)ack had a very narrow 

 escape from a fast train, which was stopped just in time by the Westinghouse 

 brake, and a famous hound called Artifice hit off the line for fifty yards down 

 the railway, and then up the embankment. On reaching the top, the pack 

 again began to run at their best pace, and, leaving Watergall Covert two 



* The last man remaining with the hounds besides ourselves was Mr. W. M. Low, 

 who I saw ia Old Sitch Field leading his horse. He had goue very well up to that 

 time.— C. M. 



