1825] SPORT IN THE TWENTIES 95 



We should think this pretty good nowadays. 



This was at least eighteen miles, measured from point 

 to point. 



In March of this year there is the first mention of 

 Mr. Trevor Yates, who changed horses with little Tom. 



Killed thirteen brace ; two badgers ; ran to ground 

 nine and a half brace ; lost twenty-five and a half brace. 



Cub-hunting began on August 22nd, 1825, in Braken- 

 hurst ; found plenty of cubs and killed one. Oddly 

 enough, next time they drew it, on September 3rd, the}^ 

 found but one fox. It was so hot and dry that they 

 stopped till the 14th. Result of the cub-hunting was one 

 cub, one badger, and two old foxes ! On the last day, 

 October 22nd, they had a blank day, though they had 

 drawn Black Slough, Rough Park, Brakenhurst, and 

 the Birchwood ! 



The opening day was at Shirley Park, on 

 October 24th. 



The first remarkable day was on February 11th, 

 from Blithfield, when " they drew through the woods to 

 Dickson's Hills, found, and came away fast through the 

 woods, through Kingston on the hills towards Blythe 

 Bridge, back by Bagot's Bromley and Dunstal, over the 

 Park and away, by Floyers Coppice, over Uttoxeter high 

 road, through Loxley Park, almost to Windy Hall, turned 

 down the hills, across the Blythe, by the corner of 

 Gratwich Wood, through the middle of Chartley, to 

 Fradswell, where we changed our fox, ran him through 

 Birchwood Park, and Draycott Wood, where we all lost 

 the hounds for some time, found them at last in Draycott 

 Woods, close to their fox, but it was so late, and all the 

 horses so beat, that we stopped them. The hardest day 

 of the season. They were running hard for five hours, 

 only Mr. Bott, Calvert, Edward Bagot, Self, Henry, Tom 

 and Joe at the end. I rode Sailor ; Henry,* roan mare ; 

 Tom, one of Mr. Walmesley's, a little while, and then the 

 black horse, who went wonderfully stout ; Joe, the young 



* Admiral Meyncll. 



