h6 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



The hounds, too, thro' the window sprung, 

 Ratthng the churns and pails among j 

 From broken pans the milk ran out. 

 The cream from steens was dash'd about ; 

 The maids tuck'd close their spatter'd clothes^ 

 And scamper'd off like frighted roes ; 

 The pack, heedless of damsels' scream. 

 First ate the fox — then drank the cream ! 1 

 Stratford, April 12th, 1803. 



BY A VETERAN FOXHUNTER. 



1804. 

 The hounds began hunting this season, in Shropshire, 

 on Monday, September 13th, at the Roomers, at six o'clock 

 in the morning ; they hunted vintil the 6th of October, 

 having killed eight brace and a half of foxes within the 

 month. 



The hounds came to Meriden on Saturday the 13th 

 .of October. 



Tuesday, October 16. — Drew Chelmsley Wood, and 

 there fovmd a brace of foxes. One of them went away for 

 Mr. York's, through the cover, and forward for Park Hall 

 woods, but not into them j he ran very near to the Church, 

 at Castle Bromwich, and at last got into a drain, at Lady 

 Lawley's. The run up to this time was very quick for an 

 hour. We soon bolted him, and then ran him by Mr. 

 York's, through Chelmsley Wood, pointing for Hampton 

 Coppice, where he went to ground. We got up to another 



1 The ^vriter adds, that the fox was killed to the great satisfaction 

 of a numerous field of Sportsmen, and the whole scene was beautiful 

 beyond description. 



