162 THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



An afternoon fox 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Two AFTERNOON FOXES— A GALLANT RUN FROM 



Eatington Grove— A poetical contribution — 



SOME OF the regular ATTENDANTS— Mr, LuCY'S 



entries— Taglion I— old William Brown. 



On Thursday, March 16th, 1876, the meet was at 

 "fromLadbroke. Shuckburgh, and those who did not go home to report 

 ** no sport," because scent was bad and there was very 

 little to be done all the morning, received quite a 

 sample of the old sort. It was a quarter past 

 four when a fox, after about three quarters of an hour's 

 persuasion, left Ladbroke and pointed for Napton, but 

 turning to the right went past Prior's Hardwick, 

 Stoneton, and to within two fields of Boddington 

 Hill Gorse. He then turned to the left, over the 

 Wormleighton Hills and across the fine vale between 

 Boddington and Byfield, straight to Griffin's Gorse, 

 which he did not enter. Here the field got a view of 

 him, going on for Badby Wood. But he turned^ 

 again to the right, past Charweltou, over the Banbury 

 and Daventry turnpike road, past Hinton House ; 

 again crossing the turnpike road near the village of 

 Byfield, back over the brook to Boddington, when he 

 made another turn. This time he went short to the 

 right and ran to within one field of the village of 

 Prior's Marston. It was now half-past six o'clock, and, 

 as the horses were all tired, the hounds were whipped 

 ofi' when not many hundred yards behind their fox. 



