THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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CHAPTER XX. 



A splendid run 

 from Chads - 

 hunt. 



Some more of Mr. Spencer Lucy's sport— hound 

 slaughter in the warwickshire country 



— A GOOD RUN FROM FeNNY CoMPTON— A FLYING 

 VISIT TO THE HeYTHROP COUNTRY— AN EXTRAOR- 

 DINARY FOX FROM Bowshot— A fair day from 

 MiTFORD Bridge— FROST — the staff. 

 A splendid run was enjoyed on January 21st, 1870, 

 from Chadshunt, and that notwithstanding the un- 

 favourable state of the ground. The meet was fixed 

 for Wroxton New Inn, but inconsequence of the hard- 

 ness of the ground it was moved to the place named, 

 where it was thought the going was better. Here a 

 fox was soonjforthcoming, and took them, in a first-rate 

 line, over ground which has often been the scene of good 

 runs. Making off in a south-easterly direction he 

 entered the Farnborough Valley, up which he ran. 

 Then taking his course up to Hanwell, in almost the 

 same manner as one of my previous foxes did, he 

 crossed the Banbury and Warwick Road to Drayton, 

 and running through the allotments, passed Withy- 

 combe and was lost in the Broughton Road. The dis- 

 tance could not have been less than fifteen miles, and 

 with a kill, it would have been a perfect day's work. 



It is a most regrettable thing when such dastardly Hound slaughter 

 acts of disloyalty as hound-slaughter have to be 

 chronicled in any country, but when that country has 

 such a bright account to give of its past as "the 

 Warwickshire " has, the deed seems all the darker. 

 That Warwickshire, with its "Century of Fox- 



