2o8 CENTURY OF ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING 



ever known these hounds to have run." Another old 

 fox-hunter who took part in the run has given us the 

 following graphic account : " I do not remember ever 

 seeing so severe a thing with any pack of hounds 

 before. There was an unusually large field in the 

 morning, as the meet was in great repute, and the 

 whole were mounted in the very first style, antici- 

 pating there would be some necessity for riding their 

 best nags, but never expecting such a tremendous 

 tickler as they all received. The huntsman, Bill 

 Barrow, tired two horses ; Mr. Morant also knocked 

 two of his best hunters up, and so did Mr. Fisher, of 

 Idlicote. The only man who rode the same horse 

 from the beginning to the end of the run was Jack 

 Barrow, the whipper-in, but he was never good for 

 anything afterwards. No circumstance would prove 

 the severity of this day's sport so satisfactorily as 

 the fact that Mr. Corbet's famous old horse, Trojan, 

 which was never known to stop before, was obliged 

 to halt under Brailes Hill. Mr. Corbet endeavoured 

 to lead him, but he could neither go nor stand. Mr. 

 John Venour, on a capital animal of the right sort, 

 stopped in the same field ; and Mr. William Barke, 

 on a young horse, went to Brailes Hill, and there 

 quitted the run. I never saw a field so completely 

 beaten before. You had only to cast your eye from 

 the top of Brailes Hill, and you would see groups of 

 horsemen leading and driving their best nags before 

 the run was half over. I once stood on Long Comp- 

 ton Hill and retraced the line of country this gallant 



