116 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



This was a capital run, and the hounds, under the 

 management of Harry Jacksons, the huntsman, went 

 well, at a rare splitting pace, the whole of the time. 



Last meet, this season, April i/th, 1815, at Hampton 

 Coppice. 



MR. STUBBS. 

 On Monday the 18th December, 1815, at his residence 

 at Rumour Hill, near Stratford-upon-Avon, died Walter 

 Stubbs, Esq. aged 54. 



Mr. Stubbs, of Beckbury, in the county of Salop, was 

 a resident at Stratford, and an enthusiastic admirer of fox- 

 hunting. He was often heard to lament there was not an 

 Act of Parliament to enable all the Sundays in the year to 

 fall together in a frost ; which, he said, would strengthen 

 the spirit of devotion, without interfering with foxhunting 

 when the weather was open. He never rode over a fence, 

 but went about nine miles an hour, a cantei', and his pace 

 over a country was proverbial — but he was sure to arrive 

 soon after the sport concluded. The day never appeared 

 too long for him. He would often recommend his brother- 

 sportsmen to draw for a fresh fox when the day was far 

 advanced, at the same time reminding them there was a 

 moon to kill him by. 



Mr. Stubbs had a peculiar practice of keeping one eye 

 shut, but which, on any occasion of surprise or alarm, as 

 invariably opened. Having made a bet one day, in the ring 

 at Newmarket, and lost it, he was suddenly accosted by the 

 winner for the money ; this had the usual effect on the 

 optic. On looking into his face, the stranger apologised 

 for his mistake, and rode away, observing — ' That the gen- 

 tleman he had bet with was a one-eyed one.' — nimrod. 



