272 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Dec. 14. — Met at Princethorpe, and found pug at home 

 at Frankton-wood, and he took us off for the Alloaks, where 

 he went to ground after a run of 30 minutes. Unkenneled 

 another at Deljdale, that went along for East Leamington, 

 and on to Bunker's-hill ; he brushed through that cover, and 

 made Crick. Two miles from this place we were hallood to 

 afresh fox, and consequently stopped the hounds. 



The run lasted two hours and a quarter, and at the 

 close of it we were 25 miles from home, with our nags very 

 much beaten, 



FROM ACTiEON. 



bishop's itciiington, dec. 23. 



' Farewell to the land where the foxes are flyers, 

 Where the fences are larger than any where else.' 



Although Warwickshire is generally considered to be 

 amongst the ' vulgar or provincial ' hunting countries, yet 

 I am convinced, since my short stay at this place, that it is 

 capable of shewing under good management as much sport, 

 and that of the first order, as any county in England. 

 Every one knows, that the cream of it is of no great extent, 

 not so much pasture land as there is in Leicestershire or in 

 Rutlandshire, and some of the crack districts, yet the foxes 

 are much wilder and stouter, and the country, particularly 

 below Dunchurch, if the weather serves, generally holds a 

 good scent, quite sufficient to kill the stoutest fox. Yet 

 with all these advantages there is one great difficulty to 

 contend with, which is perhaps the greatest barrier to good 

 sport which a huntsman can meet with, and that is the 

 tailorish and unsportsmanlike manner in which some of the 

 Field ride, not to the hounds, but rather over them or before 

 them. 



