WARWICK^S STORY 91 



common thing for me to do), but, unluckily, a man 

 in a red coat had stopped back, as if on purpose to 

 see any fox that might be left behind ; and as soon 

 as I was out of sight he gave a loud view-halloo, by 

 repeating which he brought the hounds after a short 

 time on to the line of my scent. This caused me 

 to lose no time, and having now a good start, I ran 

 straight through all those large woods until I got 

 to the end of that near the railway, when I turned 

 to the right ; and after stopping in an outside covert 

 for some time, thinking that I had escaped, I heard 

 the hounds hunting very slowly, till they were quite 

 silent. But I was soon after surprised to hear the 

 huntsman taking them across the wood where I was, 

 and instantly left it in a direction opposite to that 

 where I had seen all the hunters ride ; consequently 

 only a few followed with the hounds when they 

 hunted me across the river and railway into the 

 open, beyond Coventry. They ran me back to near 

 the side of the river, when they were taken to the 

 other side, which happening to be towards Leam- 

 ington, I remained in that part, and had got so far 

 as Ufton Wood. I was found there a few days 

 afterwards by the new huntsman of the Warwick- 

 shire hounds and that pack. Having previously 

 heard that they had learned much from Carter, the 



