1895] SIR WALTER CAEEW'S DIARY. 309 



not very fast, but an extraordinary clever hnnter. I 

 remember once, when Mr. Henley Greaves had done hunting, 

 the gentlemen begged for another day in April. He 

 said he would have another day if they would find horses. 

 I remember I was out, and the huntsman rode Chandler. 

 Tlie meet was at Eed Hill, and I remember perfectly well his 

 jumping into the road near Billesley Hall, and his telling me 

 what a good hunter he was on. This must have been al30ut 

 six years afterwards, in 1859 or 1860. — W. R. V.] Sir 

 Walter was back in Warwickshire on Friday, January 25th, 

 1850, at the Sun Eising, and had sixteen days with 

 them, and one with Mr. Anstruther Thompson, who must 

 have had the Bicester then, for they met at the Warden 

 Kennels, and had two good runs. Sir Walter records 

 that on February 7th, 1856, they found at Calcot 

 Spinney, and ran into the Nortli Warwickshire pack, 

 which had run from Dunchurch. Now that the North 

 Warwickshire meet in their swell country on Tuesdays, such 

 a contretemps has become impossible. On Monday, the 1 8th, 

 he had to leave for Cheltenham to attend the marriage of 

 Miss Eliza Taylor to Captain (afterwards Colonel) Portal, of 

 the 5th Lancers. They found their second fox in Brick Hill 

 (iorse, and had a good run, but Jones broke his leg. At the 

 end of this season his favourite horse, Harborough, was 

 sent back to Haccombe, in South Devon, to be shot. He 

 was buried, and a tree planted over his grave (a Pi mis 

 giganteci). Sir Walter adds -. "He rests on the slope by 

 the side of the house." 



About this time the Misses Carew, who had ridden 

 Devonshire ponies from their earliest years, began to hunt 

 their father's horses, and Little Ben, a bright bay horse, 

 with a good deal of courage — a MfiJtim-iu-parno — used to 

 carry Miss Carew regularly. 



The summary this year is a varied one — forty-eight 

 days' hunting : ten days in Devon, fourteen with the 

 Duke of Beaufort, six with the Vale of White Horse, 

 three with Lord Fitzharding, one with the Heythrop, 

 eleven with the Warwickshire, one with Mr. Anstruther 



