Barrington Hall 



LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



CHAPTER I. 



Barrington Hall — Lady Wanvick and her Horses — Goldfinch and Athhoy — A 

 Small Field — Hon' about those Greens ? — Horse frith Park — R. Y. Bevan 

 — P. S. Lee — Xmas Greetings — David Christy, Jnnr. — MayheUe — David 

 Chi'isty, Senr. — There are worse things than a blank day — Ford Barclay — 

 Snap Shot — Safety in Numbers — The Cream of the thing — Sheila — George 

 Hart on the Knight — Quick Wood —Fy field, I'&th December, 1895 — R. J. 

 -Dunlop on Peggy — The Great Run from Forest Hall — The Osiers — Keep a bit 

 up Your Sleeve — Over the Ford — The Die is Cast — The Race for Blake Hall 

 — Half the Hounds — The Pick of the Basket — Air. Bevan Plumps for the 

 Kissing Gate — Hospitality at Marden Ash — Up-tmnd to Maries — The pace 

 ultra — Duck Wood — Mr. A vila holds up his Hat — The Indications of a Good 

 Run—f. G. Pelly and his hunter Snowstorm — A Second Run — A Rough Line 

 — A Broken Collar Bone — After one of Mr. Bury's Foxes — A Fall over 

 Timber — The Handy Doctor — Moreton — The Surprise Packet — General Sir 

 Evelyn Wood, V.C. — Vagabond. 



THE Countess of Warwick made her mark in the hunting 

 field in Essex as Lady Brooke, and gained experiences 

 that were of considerable service to her when, to the regret of 

 all who hunted with the Essex Hounds, she gave up hunting in 

 her native county, and went to live at Warwick Castle and 

 ride with the world-famed Warwickshire Hounds. 



Lady Warwick and her horses were a match. Look at the 

 picture of the priceless " Goldfinch," a favourite hunter, for 

 which she once refused a thousand pounds, or the lovely 

 " Athboy," and you'll ken the kind of animals she rode. Half 

 a ton* was a common figure for her to give for a horse, though 

 she secured " Lord Melbourne," a lop-eared black that I well 

 remember persuading my brother, R. Yerburgh, to purchase 

 from Darby, of Rugby, for a trifle below that sum, when the 



* According to Captain Tip Top, a ton = ;^i,ooo. — Ed. 

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