THE QUORN HUNT. 



"\ VARIOUS events have from time to 

 ^ time contributed their powerful ascen- 

 dencies to render the Quorn country one of 

 the first in the estimation of sportsmen of 

 the higher classes. The nature of the land, 

 affording every facility for the enjoyment 

 of the chase in its most delectable forms, 

 was doubtless the primary attraction to 

 noblemen and wealthy commoners to select 

 Leicestershire for the pursuit of their 

 favourite pastime. In the early days of 

 foxhunting, before, in fact, it had become 

 a ''science," the ever celebrated Mr Meynell 

 — in his courtesy, talent, and zeal, far sur- 

 passing all predecessors or contemporaries 

 — drew the fashionables of the sporting 

 hemisphere to the Elysian fields of this 



