92 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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Division of the hunting programme consist of six days a week, and the 



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' Leamingtonians soon began to complain that they did 



Complaints from jjgt receive their due in the way of handy meets, and 

 Lea<miiigtoii. '' 



threatened to start a pack of their own. The com- 

 plaints were particularly loud during the Christmas 



Meeting at War- ^^^^^^^ °^ 1851-2, and in March a meeting of 

 wick. owners and occupiers of lands and coverts, and of 



gentlemen interested in hunting was held in Warwick 

 to consider a proposition emanating from Leamington 

 to establish a second pack. The feeling of the meeting 

 was strongly against the idea, and a letter was said 

 to have been received from Lord John Scott, expressive 

 of his decided objection to a second pack. After some 

 discussion the following resolution was adopted : — 

 "That the Warwickshire Hunt under the present 

 , management shall continue to hunt all the country, as 



now hunted by them, five days a week, if sufficient 

 money be forthcoming and there be sufficient foxes ; if 

 not, then four days a week as at present." 



Demands upon ^^ ^i^^ ^^ seen by the concluding words of this pro- 

 "the Warwick- position that "the Warwickshire" had found it 

 necessary to curtail their list of hunting days from the 

 arrangement made in 1850, when every day in the week, 

 Sundays excepted, had its fixture. The extra days 

 of course meant extra expense, and the portions of the 

 field from Leamington, which were loudest in their 

 demands for more attention, were, no doubt, composed, 

 as urban contingents generally are, of those who, though 

 they like to parade at the meets, dislike to pay sub- 

 substantially for sport which their lack of hunting 

 abilities prevents them from seeing. And besides it 

 is very uncertain whether the sport to be found in the 

 north was sufficient to justify the hunt deserting the 

 well-stocked coverts of the south for it. No doubt in 

 the earlier days good stout-running foxes were to be 

 met with in abundance in the woodland districts, and 

 I am happy to believe they are in these later 

 days admirably preserved there, but at that 



