20 THE QUORN HUNT, 



country. Foxes becoming more numer- 

 ous, this, and similar arrangements which 

 have taken place in other hunts, have been 

 attended with manifest advantages, afford- 



inof much more huntinof and at easier dis- 

 cs t^ 



tances. Mr Meynell, it may be observed, 

 only hunted three and occasionally four 

 days in the week. Moreover, he had a 

 greater scope of country, including Mr 

 Meynell Ingram's Derby district, and 

 some portions both of the Cottesmore and 

 Pytchley. At the time to which I refer, 

 the Quorn hounds had five appointments 

 in the week, and the Donnington three, 

 with, if I recollect rightly, occasional by- 

 days ; thus there was established nearly 

 three times as much hunting as in the days 

 of Meynell. Two years was the limit of 

 Mr Holyoake's occupation of the country. 

 Havinof taken the name of Goodrlcke, and 

 being elevated to the baronetage, he resigned 

 to Mr Errington, in 1835, and that gentle- 

 man only kept the hounds three seasons, 

 when they were sold at TattersalFs, Mr 

 Hellier being the most extensive pur- 



