50 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



^°n'*Qi¥^?Q'^o™^ g®*'*'^'^g divided, the day's work was comparatively 

 18X1-1821, -ii. T 1 



spoilt. It was, however, an excellent thing as far as 



it went, and worth recording. 



A first-rate run. The next item I have from Farnborough is of the 

 1814. 



first water, and the conclusion was as satisfactory as 



the ran had been. The meet was on December 23rd, 

 1814. No doubt in the intervening three years the 

 maijy excellent draws round Farnborough had provided 

 something worth remembering, and if they were all as 

 good as that I am about to record, Mr. Holbech would 

 have ample cause for satisfaction at the sport he was 

 enabled to give the hounds, of which he is remembered 

 as a constant and ardent follower. On the day in 

 question Mollingbon was drawn and a game fox 

 dashed away for Itchington. Sinking the vale at Rad- 

 way, he came up by the Round House an I took the 

 hill. Passing Compton Wyniates he went over a 

 splendid tract of country nearly to Hook Norton 

 Lodge, and from here took a line which, according to 

 the writer, reached nearly to Aynho. He then made 

 for Whichford, where he turned for Rollright Coombs, 

 crossed the hill by the turnpike gate to the other side of 

 Long Compton for Barton, and passed quickly through 

 Barton Grove and village. He then crossed the roads 

 between Wolford Wood and Stowe, near to the Four- 

 shire Stone, and then went away for Bourton-on-the- 

 Hill. The gallant " Warwickshire," however, would 

 not let him escape, and had him when he reached Even- 

 lode in the county of Worcester. The distance was 23 

 miles, and the time was two hours and twenty minutes, 

 rpjjg jjjjg I have inserted the run above exactly as it had been 



handed down to us, but if my readers will run through 

 it on their maps, they will see that the line given by 

 the writer, and the distance calculated by him cannot 

 be reconciled even supposing the fox ran " as the crow 

 flies " from point to point. Let them take, if possible, 

 the Ordnance Survey inch map, and with a rule follow 



