CHAPTER VII 



CAPTAIN ^ KR^^R— (continued) 



Season 1887- 1888 



THE first incident of this season was a lawn 

 meet at Little Dalby on the occasion of Miss 

 Hartopp's coming of age, a lady who was 

 destined later on to become the wife of a Quorn 

 Master. Little Dalby is in the Cottesmore country ; 

 but as the family have been intimately connected 

 with the Quorn for generations, representatives of 

 both hunts were there to pay their respects. It was 

 this season that the Quorn took back that bit of 

 country on the Donnington side which had been 

 lent to Lord Ferrars, and here, I may mention, it 

 was decided to revert to the old order of things 

 by hunting the north side of the Wreake on Mondays. 

 The change had been made the previous season, 

 with, I believe, the idea of decreasing the large 

 crowds that always attended the Quorn Fridays. 



There was a fair amount of sport in November, 

 but nothing that is worthy of being retold. It 

 was in this month that a former master of the 

 Quorn died, Mr. " Jack " Chaworth Musters. I 

 was too young to remember much about his master- 

 ship, but had always heard that he was a first-class 

 huntsman, very clever with his hands, and as quick 



as lightning in getting them away on a fox. I 



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