1890] THE GEEAT PYTCHLEY RUN. 177 



brook nearly to Preston Capes; a seven-mile point done in forty-tivr minutes, 

 without a check. When we hit it off w^e ran slowly to Fawsley Gardens, whore 

 I thought it best to stop the pack, as they had been running since 11.4-5 and it 

 was then 3.o0. and all thi^ horses beat. 



The hounds ran for four hours over at least twenty- 

 five miles of country, and only ten saw the finish at 

 Fawsley. 



Fehriianj 4th. Mitfonl Bridge. — Found at Bull's Gor.se. ran very pretty 

 by Todenhani. over the railway, and to ground in Rook Hill. A nice gallop. 

 Broke my collar-bone half through the run. Found in Wolfiu'd Wood, l)ut 

 the fox got to gr(Uind just as tliey were killing him. 



February 7t]i, 0,rhiU. — Were a long time finding at Idlicote. Init at last 

 found in a small s})inney, and ran at a gi-eat pace to Ettington Park, tlirough 

 it and the Grove and Knaveidiill, and on to Fir Grove, and through Alveston 

 Pastures and Goldicote Coppice nearly to Wellesbourne Wood. Turned back, 

 and went again through the Pastures, Fir Grove, and Alscot Park, and over 

 the river Stour ; left Gaily Oak on the right, and killed in the open close to 

 Quinton. after a ca]iital run of three hours. 



On this day, Jack Boore hunted the hounds with 

 great success, Lord AVilloughby not being well.* 



Stopped by frost on February 13th and 14tli. 



(treat Eun with the Pytchley Hounds. 



On February 2.'2nd the Pytchley Hounds had an extra- 

 ordinary run from Knightley Wood, by Mantels Heath, 

 Hoggs Staff Spinney, Charwelton, and between Boddington 

 dorse and the lieservoir to Claydon ; thence by Clatter- 

 cote, over the Grreat Western Railway, by Mollington to 

 Page's Gforse. Here they had two foxes before them, one of 

 which they ran to ground at Arlescote. Intelligence, how- 

 ever, was brought to Goodall, the huntsman, that another 

 fox, no doul:>t the hunted one, had been seen to leave Page's 

 Gorse, thoroughly beaten. He at once took the hounds 

 back, but was unable to come up with the fox before he 



* This was a great run. Major Cosmo Little went well on Linnet. I had a fall 

 before we got to Halford Bridge from Sir Cliarle.s Mordaunt's brown mare. Poor 

 Harry Franklin stopped and helped me up. She was dead lame at Goldicote, and I 

 had to come home. I went to Kineton to get my hack, and his lordship told me to 

 come in and tell him about the run, as all sorts of contradictory reports were coming in. 

 A T('»ie.s reporter was in the smoking-room, getting a pricis of Mr. Arthur Smith 

 Barry's great speech on the Irish question. Lord W. said : " Come and tell me what 

 you know ; never mind the reporter. If some of the run gets into the Times it wiU be 

 much more interesting than Arthur's speech." — W. R. V. 



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