344 REMINISCENCES OF 



CHAPTER XX. 



THE WATERLOO RUN. 



1866, Friday, 2nd February. — Met at Arthing- 

 worth. I rode " Valeria " and " Rainbow " ; Dick 

 Roake, "Usurper"; Tom Firr, "Fresco"; Charlie 

 (my son), " Amulet ". I was staying at Sir Charles 

 I sham's, at Lamport, and hounds called for me as 

 they passed. A very wet morning, but cleared at 

 eleven o'clock ; very mild and still ; not a very 

 good scent in cover ; wind, south-west. Found in 

 Waterloo at five minutes past two by my watch 

 (twenty minutes fast). The fox lay so still, I drew 

 all round the cover, and back to the top before he 

 moved. He lay among a heap of dead sticks ; 

 "Graceful" found him. Morris ^ holloaed him away 

 towards the tunnel. I was at the other end of the 

 cover, and before I got to the hounds they had 

 checked near the road. I took them along the road 

 nearly to the white gate, where they got the line 

 towards Arthingworth. They were ridden off the 

 line in the first field, but swung round through the 

 fence on to it again, over the brook and spinney at 



^ Richard Morris, my second horseman, a capital man with hounds, 

 many years with the Warwickshire, and with me in Bicester, Pytchley 

 and Atherstone countries. 



