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ance of the house, and its appropriate range 

 of stables. It is gratifying to know that 

 Lord Wilton is still enabled to maintain 

 his place with hounds, though I believe 

 he is the only one now going who com- 

 menced at the early date to which these 

 remarks refer. Indeed, with the exception 

 of Captain Ross, who has withdrawn from 

 the hunting-field, his lordship is the only 

 one of those men livinof whose names I 

 have introduced. Sir Bellingham only re- 

 tained the Quorn one clear season after 

 the exchange referred to, when Mr Os- 

 baldeston returned and hunted it till he 

 removed into the Pytchley — an event which 

 created sincere regret to his Melton friends. 

 It was during this occupation of the Quorn 

 country that he met with a sad accident ; 

 his horse falling at a fence, Sir James 

 Musgrave rode over him, and broke his 

 leg, from the effects of which he never 

 perfectly recovered. In the mystic art of 

 breeding hounds he had been eminently 

 successful. He was a perfect judge of 

 symmetry, hunting powers, and the neces- 



