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ran down to Wolford Wood again, and took shelter in the 

 gorse. The hounds were soon up to the gorse, but they 

 were so completely beaten they could not kill their fox, 

 which had led them away over a hilly country for five hours 

 and forty minutes. The fox was viewed by Bill Barrow as 

 he was going over Wigginton Heath. 



I do not remember ever seeing so severe a thing with 

 any pack of hounds before. There was an unusually large 

 Field in the morning, as the meet was in great repute, and 

 the whole were mounted in the very first style, anticipating 

 there would be some necessity for riding their best nags, 

 but never expecting such a tremendous tickler as they all 

 received. The huntsman, Bill Barrow, tired two horses ; 

 Mr. MoRANT also knocked two of his best hunters up, and 

 so did Mr. Fisher, of Idlicote. The only man that rode 

 the same horse from the beginning to the end of the run, 

 was Jack Barrow, the whipper-in, but he was never good 

 for any thing afterwards. No circumstance would prove 

 the severity of this day's sport so satisfactorily, as the fact, 

 that Mr. Corbet's famous old horse, Trojan, which was 

 never known to stop before, was obliged to halt under 

 Brailes Hill. Mr. Corbet endeavoured to lead him, but 

 he could neither go nor stand. Mr. John Venour, 1 on 



1 Mr. John Venour was one of the best men over Warwickshire, 

 in the early part, of Mr. Corbet's hunting it. He particularly distin- 

 guished himself on a little horse called Hero, which I sold him when 

 in my teens. He was by Hero, a son of Herod, out of a Welch pony, 

 but so restive that no man would venture on him, at ^13, when four 

 years old. Putting little value on neck or limb, in those days, I 

 became his owner, and after much trouble, his master ; but throwing 

 himself down, one day, in his ill humours, and blemishing himself, I 

 sold him to Mr. A^enour for .£28. He was well remembered in War- 

 wickshire for many years. — nimrod. 



