248 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1893 



a kill would have been the best of a very fair season ; now it mnst only take 

 second or third place. It is nine measured miles from Page's to Ettington 

 Station as the crow flies, aboixt seven from the Round Tower, and hounds 

 must have run eleven or twelve. Time, about two hours ; but the cream of 

 the whole was the forty minutes from Tysoe to Ettington Station. If I 

 was the Count, I should never go hunting any more. He went home with a 

 plum in his mouth, as the old Squire used to say. There were also at the 

 finish the names I liave mentioned, witli the exception of Mr. Tree, tailed off 

 like myself by the pace ; but then he had taken a fall, and lost his horse for 

 three fields at Tysoe. 



From Lord Willoughby de Broke's diary : 



March 6th, Barford Hill. — Found the second fox at Lighthome Rough, 

 and ran at a great pace through Bisliop's G-orse, leaving Chadshunt Coppice 

 on the right, nearly to Gaydon, and thence to Itchington Holt, through it, and 

 out l)y Kingston to Checkley's Brake, and on by the top of Lighthome to 

 Bishop's Gorse, and killed him after a good forty minutes. 



By the Hon. E. G. Veruey : 



Tuesday, March 7, 1893, Barton Grove. — Mr. Peters, unfortunately, not 

 out to enjoy the best scenting day of the season ; but he had not taken cellar 

 key with him ! Found at Barton Grove, and ran very fast as if for Weston 

 Heath, l)iit kept turning right-handed, and marked him to ground close 

 to where found. A breather for the horses, but only a foretaste of what was 

 in store. Foimd another in Wolford Wood, and crossed the road througji the 

 heath, and ran another terrifically fast ring round Barton and back into the 

 wood, where the pack gave him not a moment, and killed him near the 

 keeper's lodge, after running hard for about fifteen minutes in the wood and 

 twenty-five in the open. Second horses, and to Duusden, wliere a fox was 

 immediately on foot, as he always is in one of Sir Pery Pole's coverts. 

 Away they went over the brook at the bottom, and alongside it right-handed 

 at a great pace for about a mile, where they reci'ossed tlie brook, and soon 

 after made a sudden turn to the left, as if for Aston Hailes ; l)ut left that on 

 the riglit, and literally flew into Wolford Wood, where they raced him round 

 once. This stout fox turned out to die in a small patch of gorse on the 

 Leamington side, and thus finished a real old-fashioned Warwickshire day, 

 nearly all the gentlemen having, as is too often the case, gone home. 



Col. Eaikes sends a careful account of a real good 

 sporting woodland day on Monday, March 20th, 1893, at 

 Eagley. The Eagley p-ide of the country does not always 

 get the attention it deserves. Lord North, and also Lord 

 Willoughby, learned much of hunting in this wild, good- 

 scenting district, and, though the country is tamer than it 

 was, a run over the Vale beyond Weethley is not to be 

 despised : 



Hounds put into Lady's Wood at Boathouse, and, not finding up to 

 Amen Comer, his lordship turned out across the road into Enniston. 



