THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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As I mentioned last week, Worrall left at the end of 

 the season 1868-9, and on the 20th of May was invited 

 by the farmers and tradesmen of the Warwickshire 

 country, to a complimentary dinner at the White Lion 

 Hotel, Banbury, and was presented with a silver horn 

 and a purse of 108 guineas. Mr. S. Berridge, of Drayton, 

 presided and made the presentation, and the unani- 

 mity with which the subscriptions were forthcoming 

 testified to the esteem, which those who followed the 

 hounds in the field, felt for the man who had so ad- 

 mirably worked them. During the following season 

 Mr. Lucy hunted the hounds himself two days a week, 

 Tom Hastings,whoin Worrall'stime had beenfirst whip, 

 taking them on the other two days. This, however, 

 did not work altogether satisfactorily, and at a meeting 

 of subscribers held at Wellesbourne at the end 

 of the season, it was decided to guarantee 

 an extra £300 for the engagement of a first- 

 class huntsman. James Young was engaged and 

 hunted one season, Charles Orvis, Scott, and Fryer 

 being the whippers-in, but after that season Young 

 left, and the horn was handed to Orvis, who carried it 

 with great credit to himself for the rest of Mr. Lucy's 

 mastership and a portion of the time of Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke. He always brought the 

 hounds out in the best condition and handled them 

 well while at work. Mr. Lucy afterwards arranged to 

 hunt the country north of the Avon himself on a fifth 

 day. 



Mr. 



H. Spencer 

 Lucy. 

 1866-1876. 



Presentation 

 Worrall. 



Charles Orvis. 



