254 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1893 



so enormously of late years ; but stating that if the 

 subscribers would largely increase their subscriptions he 

 would go on. 



It was unanimously resolved that Sir Charles 

 Mordaunt, as chairman, should write a letter to Lord 

 Willoughby to the effect that the meeting had 

 unanimously resolved that every effort should be made 

 to induce Lord Willoughby to keep the homids, and that 

 the lion, secretary, Major Armstrong, had ascertained that 

 up to the present, increased subscriptions had been promised 

 for the season 1894-95 amounting to 250/. That this 

 meeting would be adjourned till the middle of February, 

 before which time it was hoped Lord Willoughby would 

 inform the hon. secretary what further guarantee he would 

 require. 



At this time a stage coach, which had for many years 

 been running between Leamington and Stratford- on -Avon, 

 was taken off the road, but Mr. Macgregor has put it on 

 again, and named it " The Eevival." 



In the old coaching days a man found himself an 

 inside passenger with only one other, who wore a neck 

 handkerchief twice round, and appeared to be unable to 

 enter into any conversation. The first-mentioned man 

 said to the guard : " What is the matter with this gentle- 

 man ? Is he ill or out of his mind ? " The reply was : 

 " Oh, he is all right, bui he was hung yesterday, and after 

 he had been cut down his friends revived him, and now he is 

 going horned — C. M. 



About this time Lord Lonsdale, master of the Quorn, 

 initiated a very great reform with respect to second horse- 

 men. He requested that they should be ordered to keep 

 together, and in the roads and lanes as far as possible. In 

 former days these young gentlemen used to have too good 

 a time of it. We all remember Leech's celebrated carica- 

 ture — the grinning boy going full gallop close to the 

 hounds, and saying : " Dear me, what a delightful thing ! 

 I wonder where master can be." On the other page 

 master is depicted, with a thoroughly beaten horse, wiping 



