54 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOtJNDS. 



Lord MiDDLETON after one o'clock when the hounds were thrown off. 



* There was a good deal of snow on the ground and no 



one out anticipated much sport. However a fox was 

 turned out, and after ringing a little, started at a killing 

 pace for Edgehill. He then pointed for Compton 

 Wyniates, went over Brailes Hill and on for Weston 

 House. Leaving this to the left, he passed ou for 

 Whichford Wood, where the snow was very thick, and 

 ran, nearly as straight as a line, for Barton-on-the- 

 Heath. The pace then slowed and finally, almost 

 beaten, he lay down in a field. He was started again, 

 but was killed almost immediately, near Moreton-in- 

 the- Marsh. The distance was nearly twenty miles and 

 the run lasted two hours and fifty minutes. The hunts- 

 man and whips kept with the hounds, but of the field 

 only very few followed far, and Mr. Holbech was about 

 the only one who was up at the death, which occurred 

 in the dark. 



