30 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER V. 



The celebrated Epwell run— some more War- 

 wickshire WORTHIES. 



The Epwell Run. ^* *^^® juncture I may be allowed, perhaps, to bring 

 in the famous Epwell run. An excellent piece of running 

 from this rendezvous has already been described and it 

 has been, no doubt, the originating point of many other 

 admirable days, both in Mr. Corbet's time and since. 

 One run, however, has come down to modern times as 

 ** The Epwell Run" on account of a poem written 

 upon it by Edward Goulburn, Esq., and called 



Mr. Goulburn'g "The Epwell Hunt." lam sorry that the exact date 

 EpwellHunt. q| ^^|^g j.^^ jg ^^^j ^^q y^g discovered. The poem bears the 

 date of 1807. *' The Warwickshire " met at Epwell on 

 November 14th and December 7th. Either of these 

 dates may, therefore, be the auspicious one. I am 

 sorry that I cannot fix it nearer than this, and those of 

 my readers who like time and place exact in all trans- 

 actions must forgive me. The gorse was the first to 

 yield a smart preliminary to the great event which was 

 to follow. It was sharp enough to thin down a field 

 of some two hundred to decent dimensions. But a very 

 few moments ensued after the death of this indi- 

 vidual before another fox was oflf and away, and took his 

 admirers back to Epwell. The exact geography of this 

 bit of business is vague, but we need not trouble about it 

 for it is the after work which lives in the history of " the 

 Warwickshire" as " the Epwell run." Let us take to 

 the map once more. Epwell may be said to have formed 



