268 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Then skii-ted the gorse^ and by stoutness and game^ 



He reach'd Rumour Hill, where a Sportsman, whose name 



Was known in this Hunt, and the counties around. 



Besides whose equal has seldom been found. 1 



Reynard mounted the hill, but when at the top, 



He was gallantly run into and thrown up 



In the open field 5 'twas a brilliant run 



Of just sixty-five minutes, since first it beghn. 



Not one single check, not one cast of the hounds, 



From fam'd Mcon Hill, up to Rumour Hill Grounds ! 'Z 



THE SAME, BY WEAZEL. 

 Mr. Thornhill, on this day had one of the best runs 

 ever known in Warwickshire, without check or stop. We 

 found a wild kind of greyhound fox on Ilmington Hill, in a 

 rough gorse near to the Meon Hill. ' I'll bet you a crown, 

 (cried the farmers,) that you don't kill him 5 he is our old 

 friend ; the fox that the greyhounds have often coursed, 

 but could never kill.' However, the event proved that 

 Will Boxall knew better, for after a glorious run of one 

 hour and five minutes, pug was killed. 



1 The late Mr. Walter Stubbs. 



2 The head of this fox, a present from Mr. Thornhill, is now 

 preserved in a glass case, and fixed at the end of the Hunt Room, at 

 the Warwick Arms Inn, Warwick ; and underneath is written the 

 following account : 



' This fox was found on Hmington Hill, on Monday, the 2nd 

 of December, 1833, and after going away by Meon Hill, leaving 

 Quinton on his right, through Marston Grounds, crossed the brook 

 by HuUington Farm, where turning short back across to Pcbworth 

 enclosures, was run into by the Warwickshire Hounds on Rumour 

 Hill, after a run of one hour and five minutes, without a single check, 

 or the hounds being cast once : the pace throughout, unequalled for a 

 length of time.' 



