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is rather straggling, Lord Harrington accepted a 

 slice of Quorn territory from Capt. Forester on the 

 Forest side. For a man over his " threescore and 

 ten " to hunt six days a week, with portions of his 

 country lying wide apart, is a genuine proof of his 

 keenness and marvellous constitution. I wish there 

 were more like him, and regret that he had not a 

 son, for England can ill afford to lose the stock 

 from such tough fibre. 



The Quorn finished the season with a brilliant 

 seventeen minutes from Ella's Gorse, the sun shining, 

 and in clouds of dust. 



That was on the 9th of April, and two days later 

 the Cottesmore had a very enjoyable wind-up from 

 a meet at Langham. 



This was a season that was universally condemned 

 as bad, and yet it will be seen by the extracts I 

 have made that there were many good runs. The 

 truth is that foxhunters are like farmers, they love 

 grumbling, and if their sport is stopped for a week 

 or two they forget all the fun they have enjoyed 

 in dwelling and thinking over the few days they 

 have missed. 



