MR. THORNHILL.— 1835. 321 



Feb. 28. — Met at Long Itchington, and found a fox at 

 Debdale, which, after running about three fields, went to 

 ground. Drew, and found another at Print-hill, which led 

 us straight away through Ufton-wood, on to Stoneythorpe ; 

 then crossing the brook, and leaving Ladbroke to the right, 

 he bore away for Radbourne Gorse ; leaving that to the 

 right, he went straight for Napton, and the hounds ran 

 into him just under that town, after a severe run of one 

 hour and "25 minutes. In this run Jack Ransom killed the 

 old grey horse. 1 



Mar. 3. — Met at Wroxton New Inn, and found in the 

 Park, but it was such a bad hunting day, and no scent we 

 could not follow him with any chance of success. We next 

 drew Hanwell, Curtis's Gorse, and Edge-hills, blank. In 

 drawing Gambell's Gorse we unkenneled another fox which 

 took us straight over the hills, at a very fast pace to Lord 

 Northamptok's. At this place we changed our fox, and 

 were again brought back to the hills. The hounds were 

 then taken home. 



An ' Admirer of Foxhunting ' says — We had a very 

 capital day's sport to-day. 



1 One of the predecessors of the present Sir E. D. Scott, Bart, of 

 Bar Beacon, a gentleman of the name of Hoo, kept a pack of honnds 

 that would hunt either fox or hare. The whip, a lad of 17 or 18, rode 

 a mule. This animal would leap a ditch either in an open field, or at a 

 hedge-row, but to attempt to make him jump at a hedge even of a 

 yard high, was a useless task. On approaching a fence, the lad drew 

 his cap over his face, and they pushed through it as well as they could. 

 Yet, some how or other, the boy and the mule generally contrived to 

 be in as good a place as the best of them at the end of a run. Some 

 of the Field have often wished to have been up with the whip at the 

 close of a severe day, but none of them envied the manner by which 

 he got there. 



