338 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Mr, Thornhill continued Master for this season, 

 1835-36, and as every care had been taken, and arrange- 

 ment made, to open the sporting campaign with eclat, and 

 pursue it with effect, another splendid succession of sport 

 was anticipated by the friends of the Hunt, 



As Bill Boxall had left the hounds at the end of the 

 last season, Tom Day was appointed huntsman ; Jack 

 Ransom first whij) ; and Jack Day, son of the huntsman, 

 second whip. 



Those Sportsmen who had at times been present at the 

 cub-hunts, were of opinion that an improvement had taken 

 place in the foxes. They were stout and wild, and the 

 Master had been very anxious to have them well dispersed 

 through the covers. 



The first meet this season was on Monday, the 2nd of 

 November, 1835, at Houndshill, the seat of the worthy 

 Master, 



The weather was extremely unfavourable, and the scent 

 so bad that we had no sport, of any consequence, for some 

 weeks. On the 28th of November, the hounds found an 

 old dog fox on Brailes Hill, and after a very severe run, with 

 only one check, killed on Compton Hill. At the end the 

 Field was very select. 



