1893] A GREAT DAY'S SPORT. 251 



found out that this had been done. My keeper took the remaining cub to the 

 kennels, and reared it by hand, and it seemed to be doing very well for about 

 six weeks, but after that time it took the mange, notwithstanding that he had 

 taken care to feed it on rabbits only. He tried to treat it in tlie sanie way 

 that a dog is treated for mange, and is very often cured of it, but it died. It 

 liad no doubt cauglit the disease from the \'ixen, as she and the otlier cubs all 

 died of it, except those wliich were killed by the hounds during cubhunting. 



SEASON OF 1893-94. 



When dining out during the summer I drove to dinner 

 in a phaeton. My host told me that he was driving home 

 with a friend on a similar occasion when he was only just 

 able to pull up in time to avoid running over a man who 

 was lying on the road, and who could not move because he 

 had got his riglit 1p(j and foot at the back of his neck. He 

 had been to a circus, and having seen the clown do this he 

 thought he would practise the movement on the way 

 home. — C. M. 



Lord Willoughby de Broke' s diary : 



Did not keep a diaiy during cubhunting. The summer was one of the 

 dryest ever known, and the harvest was very early. There was no grass, and 

 literally no hay crop at all. Hay rose to the imprecedented price of %l. a ton. 

 No rain fell during the cul)hmiting, and nearly all packs in tlie neighbourhood 

 stopped. We began on August 20th, and managed to keep on four days a week. 



On Friday, October 27th, we had a wonderful day's sport. Foimd at the 

 Sandpit Covert at "Wiggington, and ran by Milcombe and South Newington, 

 and on to Great Tew, and back again over the Banl)ury Road ; turned short to 

 the left again, and ran l)y Swerford Park, and on nearly to Badger's Gorse ; 

 turned to the left here, and ran on for Heythrop Park, and killed in the 

 open near there after a caj^ital fifty-five minutes.* Found the second fox at 

 Gulliver's Osiers, and dodged about a good deal at first, going to Miller's 

 Osiers twice. At last the fox set his head, and turning back from Sluitford, 

 ran at a tremendous pace, leaving Balseott to the left, over the Banbury Road, 

 between Wroxton New Inn and Wroxton, left Horuton on the left, and went 

 by Jones's Gorse, over tlie Camp Lane, and down tlie hill as if for Avon 

 Dassett, but turned short to the right at the bottom, and ran into Warmington 

 Village, and was killed in Mr. Wady's bedroom, after one of the finest runs 

 ever seen. Only the Master, the Hon. Greville Vemey, and Jack Boore saw 

 the finish.f 



* Colonel Norris, who sent us an account of this run, with an excellent map of it, 

 measures the distance as hounds ran nine miles, although three and a half miles only 

 from point to point. 



t During the greater part of this run the Hon. Greville Verney, on his 

 celebrated brown horse "Barnard Holt," was alone with the hounds. Mr. Fane 

 Gladwin, Mr. Campbell Blair, and myself were the only other three who get anywhere 

 near the finish. My pony had a long coat on, and was beat, and I overshot the mark at 

 Warmington. Mr. Fane Gladwin was equally unlucky. — W. R. V. 



