34 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Not one blank day with the Warwickshire hounds, 

 since Christmas. 1 



The hounds left Meriden on Monday, March 23d, and 

 got to Beckbury on the same day. 



The season finally ended in Shropshire, on the 7th of 

 April, after some capital runs, more particularly in that part 

 of the hunt called the Staffordshire country. 



1 We were in error, by stating, in page 8, that Mr. Corbet when 

 in Warwickshire, divided liis hounds into two packs, dogs and bitclies. 

 His packs were classed according to their age. — venator. 



Mr. Corbet had a peculiar way of crossing a country. Although 

 he would not leap, he would gallop as fast as any one, and shewed no 

 small share of nerve as well as hand, in going the splitting pace he did 

 along the stony and sloughy lanes ; and he got several awkward falls. 

 He knew every gate, gap, and lane, and it was astonishing to see how 

 well he got to hounds, without going over a fence. On coming to a 

 fence he did not like the looks of, and seeing one he knew, going at it 

 he would say, — ' Thank ye. Sir, I am very much obliged to you ; 

 you'll just catch my horse.' This just catching his horse, just lost his 

 friend the run, if it were a good one. — nimrod. 



