THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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H. Spbncbr 

 Lucy. 

 1866-1876. 



A Shuckburgh 

 day. 



Billesley H»ll. 



mad for forty-tive minutes, finally pulling down their Mr. 

 sport at Lighthorne Rough. It was a capital gallop, 

 although it began so late. 



Good things were enjoyed at this time from Shuck- 

 burgh. I suppose, however, my readers do not want 

 to be informed of this, as Shuckburgh and good sport 

 have always been, and always will, I hope, be 

 synonyms. One day I have about this time saw a fine 

 run. It is, however, dateless. They found in the 

 wood but lost. Ladbroke was then drawn and 

 provided a run over a very big country to Staverton 

 Wood in the Pytchley country, where he was killed. 

 It was a fine run of just over an hour. 



January 11th, 1869, and Billesley Hall again, is the More sport at 

 commencement of another good thing. There was a 

 small field out. They found in the covert near 

 Red Hill and ran over the road to Withycomb Wood, 

 then recrossed the road through the Night Cap and 

 Oversley Wood. Then over the river and through 

 Ragley Park, past the Hall and through Weethley 

 Wood and a part of Bevington Waste, and leav- 

 ing the Lench Woods on his left, he went 

 over the field where "the Worcestershire" 

 met the same morning and turned to the right over 

 the Worcester and Stratford turnpike for Grafton 

 Wood, but one field from this he was headed by a 

 man with some cattle. He now bore to his left and 

 pointed for Worcester, but the bitches ran into their 

 fox in the middle of a stubble field, close to Fly- 

 ford Flavell. This was a very fine run of two hours, 

 chiefly over the Worcestershire country. Mr. G. 

 Hawkes of Talton had a pad of this stout fox. 

 It was very strange that *' the Worcestershire " had 

 just killed their fox in a wood near the road leading 

 home and Mr. Hawkes went to them and begged a 

 pad of their fox ; so that he carried home a double 

 trophy. This was quite one of the old sort. He was 

 ft tremendously large fox and the hounds fairly hunted 



