246 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



FERN HILL, JAN. 1, 1833. 



We did not succeed at any of the woods near to this 

 meet, but we found ultimately in a neighbouring wood ; we 

 ran our fox at his best pace through the country, for one 

 hour and 20 minutes. We then got to steady hunting for 

 an hour and 40 minutes, when Bill Boxall picked up the 

 fox alive before the hounds, and he was killed. This run 

 altogether lasted three hours. 



BY WEAZEL. 



LADBROOKE, THURSDAY, JAN. 3. 



On the 3d of January, we had a beautiful thing with 

 Mr. Russell, near Southam. We found an old fox at 

 Radbourne, that ran like a very Belgian, at a splitting pace, 

 to Watergall ; through the cover there to Dassett Hill, 

 leaving Fenny Compton on the right. On the hills pug 

 effected a bargain with another pug, and persuaded him to 

 take the hounds on at a merry pace up to Edge Hill, by 

 Knoll End, while he remained at Dassett. From Edge Hill 

 pug made for Shennington, and then to Epwell's famed 

 White House, where, lucky for pug, he got into a drain. 



The run lasted three hours. It is the first time, for 

 these five and twenty years, that a fox took so direct a line 

 to Edge Hill, over this magnificent grass country. At one 

 time Mr. Corbet thought proper to smoke out the foxes 

 from the earths at Knoll End, as there were so many recep- 

 tacles at Edge Hill ; the consequence was, he could not 

 force a fox to Knoll End, the place where we unkenneled 

 to-day. 



