1888] EUN FROM LADBROKE. 159 



(forty-five inimites). Scent then seemed to vauisli, and the hunt eanie to an 

 end. So must my jottino-s. But uevei- ag-ain h't the liypercritic scoff, or the 

 unbeliever shrug his sliouhlers, at the SIuickl)urgh rliapsodies of 



Brooksby. 



P.S. I should add that some twenty j^eople went tlirougli this second run ; 

 and among them I may be allowed to make liasty mention of Mrs. Boucli* (if 

 I caught rightly the name of tlie only lady"), Sir Charles Mordaunt, Messrs. 

 Leigh, Beatty, James, Ford, Rose. Goodnum, Fabling, Jenner, Waring, 

 another farmer from Sliropsliire, Major Dutliy, Capt. Atherton, and. of course, 

 the Master and his man- 



Lord Willoughb}^ de Broke's diary : 



March l^tJi. Long Itchington. — Found the third fox at Lad))roke G-orse, 

 ran towards the Welsh Road Gorse, turned to tlie right, and pointed for 

 Wormleighton ; but kept swinging to the right, and crossed the road, Init not 

 the brook, and went as far as the Great Western Railway, pointing for 

 Bishop's Itchington ; did not cross the line, but kept on over Chapel Ascot 

 Hill, and over the road near Duppers Bridge, and all along tlie side of the 

 brook till near Stoney Thorpe, when he turned to the left and ran parallel 

 with the Southam Road to Ladbroke Village, where the hounds killed liim. 

 after a good run of fifty minutes. 



March 2'3r(l. The Girmge, Fenny Conipton. — Found at Knibbs Bushes, and 

 killed at Bitham Hoiise. Got on the line of another fox, and ran him at a 

 great pace through Harl)age's Covert, turned to the left, and ^mssed Fani- 

 borough Pool on the left, and crossed the road, and ran the valley all the way 

 to Knole End ; thence hj Radway, and ran back at only a lumting pace to 

 Biii'ton Old Toll Bar, and on to Bawcutt's Covert, tlirough it, and away close 

 to tlie fox, who had waited for the pack, towards Gaydon Hill. They ran liim 

 very hard for fifteen minutes through Gaydon Coppice, over the road and 

 railway, and killed close to Marlliorough, after a good ran of one hour and 

 forty-five minutes. Found again at Watts' Gorse. and had a capital twenty- 

 five minutes without a check, going by the. corner of the Oak Fields, and 

 pointing for Pillerton, but kept swinging left-handed, and ran to ground in a 

 stone quarry on the top of Edge Hill. 



March 27th, JVolford ViUage.— Brew Wolford Wood blank ! Found at 

 the Golden Cross Gorse, and ran very well up to Brailes Hill, and got up to 

 the fox at Jenny Swift, and ran him very nicely across the Vale to Idlicote, 

 wliere we had several foxes on foot. Ran one across to Eatington Park at a 

 good luinting pace, and lost after nmning nearly two hours. 



Last day of hunting on April 14tli at Binton Bridges. 



Hunted on 106 days ; killed seventy foxes, and ran twenty-four to ground. 



From the Fie/d, April 14, 188s, by "Brooksby": 



The "Midland Sportsmen's Races"" were brouglit off on Tuesday, 



* If I mistake not, Mrs. Bouch was riding her favourite white horse, the " Ghost," 

 purchased from Mr. Henry Ford, of Leamington. She was always very fond, as was 

 Mr. Bouch, of a Shuckburgh meet. One day in November she heard a great riuging of 

 bells, and stamping about, and some language not quite parliamentary. It was our 

 friend " Willie," who had put on flesh in the summer's run, and could not get into his 

 breeches. The chase was finally abandoned for the day, as he could scarcely appear at 

 a Lower Shuckburgh meet iu trousers. — W. R. V. 



