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occasion of a " sporting lector " the sentence, " A 

 fish-tag's ware is not more perishable than a 'unts- 

 man's fame ; his skill is within the judgment of 

 every one — cleverest fellow alive ! — biggest fool 

 going \" 



The Quorn wound up the old year with a really 

 first-class, old-fashioned hunting run. The fox was 

 found in Gartree Hill, and after starting out on the 

 Burton Flats, bore to the right and went fairly 

 straight to the Fish-pond Spinney at Cold Overton. 

 From this point he turned back, running through 

 the Punchbowl and Burrough village to be killed 

 near John o' Gaunt station. 



Gillson had the bad luck to break his collar-bone 

 in January, and on the 17th of the month Mr. 

 Baird hunted hounds from a meet at Leesthorpe, 

 killing a leash of foxes. 



Firr accomplished another of those marvellous 

 performances on the following Monday, when he 

 hunted a twisting fox from Thrussington Gorse for 

 fifty-five minutes with extraordinary patience and 

 under great difficulties. 



Hounds then got on better terms, and running 

 hard for another forty minutes, killed in the open. 



The Quorn had a very good run on i8th Feb- 

 ruary from Curate's Gorse to Scalford ; the first part, 

 up to Little Belvoir, hounds were racing over the 

 cream of the vale. 



It may be that the Belvoir found the same fox 

 on the Saturday following at Hose Thorns, but after 

 giving a good run he again beat hounds in the 

 neighbourhood of Willoughby. In the afternoon 

 of this same day a fox from Clawson Thorns took a 

 similar line, and was run over by a train on the 

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