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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Lord 



WiLIiOUGHBY DE 



Broke. 



A clinkiner day 

 from Idlicote. 



and, leaving Shotteswell to the right, ran down to 

 Angel's Piece. He was now pressed hard, but 

 struggled bravely and saved his brush in a drain in 

 Mollington Village. The distance must have been 20 

 miles and the pace was good all the time, which, as I 

 stated in starting, was two hours. But this was not 

 all the work of the day. After a brief rest, the 

 noble master went on to Page's Gorse and a fox 

 went away at the bottom as if for Angel's Piece. 

 Being headed he took the vale below Shotteswell, 

 bearing up to the right of Hanwell and down nearly 

 to the Banbury Workhouse. He then crossed the 

 road and went over to the brickyards on the Broughton 

 Road, when he turned back to Withycombe Covert, 

 and he gave up his brush. These two runs made 

 up a day well worth remembering. They were the 

 best hunting runs seen for a long time. 



Tuesday, January 16th, 1883, was a clinking day. 

 The meet was at Idlicote and, a new covert at Oxhill 

 was the first to provide sport. He went out for 

 Kirby's farm, across Bourland Farm, away past Piller- 

 ton Spinneys, and by Fulready to Idlicote. Then away 

 for Whatcote, and leaving this to his left, he went 

 by Kirby's Farm and straight up to Compton Wyni- 

 ates Windmill. Here he was headed and turned 

 across the bottoms by Tysoe, and went straight 

 on, by the old Lodge, to the Sun Rising, where he 

 was run into and killed. The time was two hours and 

 seventeen minutes. The work was hard and falls 

 numerous, and the brook, which was presented in the 

 course of the run, caused seven or eight loose horses. 

 But, like the day given above, this was not all ; for 

 another find took place at Tysoe and the hounds went 

 off again, but at such a pace that it was impossible to 

 live with them. No one was in it for a mile and a 

 half, when Lord Willoughby got up, and the fox was 

 killed at the Old Lodge. 



