166 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



The summit was scarcely attain'd, when the pack 

 Lost scent, and the horses were sav'd by the check ; 1 

 Soon hit off again, but the hunting was cold. 

 While reynard made head at a rate he could hold. 

 To Peb worth we follow "d — and there to our cost 

 Our horses were beat — and our fox he was lost. 



Mr. J. Lucy, on Merry-go-round, a famous horse he had 

 just bought, led the Field to Mcon Hill. Mr. Whitwick, 

 Mr. R. Greaves, and Mr. Patrick, rode well ; the latter 

 got a slight fall at the top of the hill, from his horse slipping 

 at the take-up. Many of the horses were rode to a stand- 

 still, and the stoutest of them got quite enough of it. — The 

 fox was killed at Pebworth by a shepherd's dog. 



Mr. J. Lucy first mounted his horse Merry-go-round, 

 on this day, and he proved to be one of the right sort. He 

 gave a large sum for him, but laming him by some means 

 in the course of this run, and thinking he could not recover, 

 he sold him to Mr. Russell for £50, who rode him for 

 eight or nine seasons afterwards, and he always went well 

 on a fast and long day. — a subscriber to the hunt. 



1 A Veteran Sportsman remarks, — The zealous Sportsman will 

 never condescend to be left a great way behind. He knows his place, 

 and he keeps it ; he is never seen in the body and bustle of a crowd, 

 riding' in a direct line with, and pressing upon the heels of the hounds, 

 but in a tnie sporting style parallel with the three or four last couple 

 of the pack. Keeping his ground in this situation, he rapturously 

 enjoys every alternate change and variety of the scene ; by lying close 

 to the hounds, and making the necessary observations, he is sure of 

 seeing where and when they throw up, and of course knows to a 

 certainty how far they have carried the scent ; consequently those only 

 who are forward, and know the state of the chase, are the best qualified 

 to give the signal of ' Hold hard !' to those behind, and not, as is too 

 frequently the case, for those behind to transmit, inconsistently, the 

 petulant ex<'lamatio)i to those before. 



