THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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The ordnance survey inch map, if handy in sufficient sizd 

 will show at a glance what a splendid day's work was 

 done. Start with the find near Epwell White House, 

 on the ridge of the Edgehills, then account for the 

 little circle round Compton Wyniates and work the 

 line, somewhat of a see-sawing nature, on to Banbury. 

 Those of you, and I hope they are many, who hare 

 followed "the Warwickshire " over this much traversed 

 part, will know that a very fair piece of work had been 

 done over a country with hills abounding. Then, 

 placing one end of your rule on Banbury, let the other 

 drop, if your map allows it, at Bourton-on-the-Water, 

 right down in Gloucestershire, some four or five miles 

 south-west of Stow-on-the-Wold, and you will see at 

 once the amount of work done by "the Warwickshire" 

 that afternoon. If he went as straight as the line of 

 your rule, the points of this part of the run lie 22 miles 

 apart. It is a pity that the place where the 

 hounds were stopped is not chronicled, and 

 the absence of particulars between Banbury 

 and Bourton, is also to be regretted, although the lack 

 of this information is easily understood. We do not 

 know in what direction he left Banbury, or what line 

 he took to get to Bourton, but the very shortest — and 

 he must have been a straight-running individual — 

 would take them through Broughton, Tadmarton 

 Heath, Hook Norton, Great Rollright, leaving Chipping 

 Norton one mile to the left, and so on through Salford, 

 Cornwell, Wick Rissington, to Bourton-on-the-Water. 

 And it must not be forgotten that the end was not 

 here, although it is doubtful if he took them much 

 further. 



A merry night would they have had at the club 

 after such a day as this, but the "Black Collars " on 

 this evening were scattered far and wide. Most of the 

 horses were tired after leaving Banbury, and not one re- 

 turned that night to the stable he had left in the morning. 



Mr. John Corbet 

 1791-1811. 



The conjectured 

 course. 



