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THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



[1890 



run he ever saw, he thinks, was in April. A fox had 

 been killing lambs, and they found him in Gaydon Hill 

 field. It was in 1854. Jones was huntsman, and Mr. 

 Spencer Lucy was out on Tipperary Boy. Mr. Fairbrother 

 was riding Modest Mary, a little bay mare. They ran by 

 Northend, and over Burton and Compton Hills, through 

 Elkington's Spinney, to Wormleighton Reservoir, and 

 under Mrs. Cowper's and Harbage's Covert, but did not 

 enter it. Then straight away back, leaving Fenny Compton 

 on the right and Knightcote on the left, to Itchington Holt 

 and killed. Mr. Spencer Lucy acknowledged that Mr. 

 Fairbrother had the best of it. He took the brush back to 

 Mr. Tomlin, of Ireland, who had lost the lambs. He never 

 himself rode to London, but often to Southall. He has 

 been forty-five years in the yeomanry, having joined in 

 1851, and last year passed the medical examination to go 

 on as quartermaster. He is still going strong, is an alder- 

 man of the County Council, and is tlie recognised " time- 

 keeper " of the Hunt, having never missed timing a run 

 or a sermon for forty years. He lives in a beautiful spot 

 at the top of Burton Hill, overlooking the glorious vale, 

 on the other side of which lies 



THE WELL-KNOWN POOL FIELDS OSIERS. 



