With the Warwickshire. 1 1 1 



for a certain number of attendances and good conduct 

 in tlie field. 



With tbe Warwickshire, as with the other hounds 

 in the Shires, the superiority of the horses is a notice- 

 able fact ; and I specially remarked a grey horse from 

 Leamington, belonging, I believe, to Mr. Eennie, that 

 would have borne comparison with the noble animal 

 that I have spoken of before — the superb hunter, the 

 property of Mr. Little Gilmour. The Warwickshire 

 Hounds are hunted by Charles Orvis, whose father 

 lost his life by the upsetting of the Newby ferry-boat 

 when conveying some of the horses and their riders 

 across the river, during a run with the York and 

 Ainsty Hounds, on which occasion that first-rate and 

 most popular master of hounds. Sir Charles Slingsby, 

 and one or two members of the hunt, were unfortu- 

 nately drowned. Sir George Wombwell nearly sharing 

 the same fate. The first covert that was drawn was 

 Calcut Bushes, where a fox was soon found, who went 

 away at a racing pace for thirty-five minutes, over a 

 very fine but stiS" country, bringing not a few of these 

 hard riding men to grief, as shown by the loose horses 

 that were galloping riderless along; leaving Grand- 

 borough on the right towards Leamington Hastings, 

 and going the pace to within a short distance of Deb- 

 dale, when a heavy storm came on; and, the scent 

 becoming cold, the hounds had to pick their way 

 slowly, crossing the Southam Road back to Calcut, 

 where the fox was lost. After drawing the Shuck- 

 burgh coverts blank, the hounds were trotted off to 

 Ladbroke four miles off, and most of the Rugby men 

 returned home. 



On this occasion Mr. Tailby's hounds met at Ilston- 



