106 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



BY TAG. 



MEET FARNBOROUGH, DECEMBER 23rD, 1814. 



We met a good Field, this morning, at the seat of one 

 of our most ardent Sportsmen, Mr. W, Holbech. We 

 instantly drew Mollington, and found a game fox which 

 dashed away at a slapping pace for Itchington ; but sinking 

 the vale at Radway, he came up by the Round House, and 

 took the hill. Then he went away for Edge Hill, on to 

 Lord Northampton's, by the Compton Turnpike, almost 

 reaching Hook Norton Lodge, and \ery nearly down to 

 Aynho. Our fox then made Wichford, where he tvirned for 

 Rollright Coombs, over the hill just by the turnpike gate 

 to the other side of Long Compton for Barton, and passed 

 quickly through Barton Grove and \illage. He then 

 crossed the roads between Wolford Wood and Stowe, near 

 to the Fourshire Stone, then away for Bourton-on-the-Hill, 

 but we killed him when he reached Evenlode, in the county 

 of Worcester. 



This, certainly, vvas one of the best things I ever saw 

 with hounds ; the distance was 'J.'^j miles, and done in two 

 hours and 20 miniites. 



Mr. CoCKBiLL, of Radway, on Sidentail, a bay horse 

 of the right sort ; and Zac Goddard, the first whip, on 

 Little Surprise, a capital chestnut horse bought from the 

 .stud of Mr. Corbet, were the only two present when the 

 hounds tiirned up their game. Just as it was getting dusk 

 the pack viewed their fox, when Mr. Cockbill and Zac 

 were close together, Mr. C. taking the lead over the last 

 fence, an awkward hog-backed stile and ditch. When he 

 had safely landed, he halloo'd to the whip ' hold hard ! ' as 

 the hounds were all singing with their heads in the air, and 



