48 THE QUORN HUNT. 



Years may roll on, and still thy name 



Untarnished yet shall be, 

 Enshrined within a jewelled crown 



Of pleasant memory. 

 Of thine unbounded good 



How many a one will tell, 

 For thou could'st not have an enemy, 



Kind friend ! alas ! farewell. 



It was a source of surprise, and still 

 greater regret, that Mr Clowes signified 

 his intention to resign at the termination 

 of his third season, when his pack was sold 

 at the Ouorn kennels. All the excellences 

 to be derived by the most judicious breed- 

 ing had been duly sustained. The good 

 sources from which it had been originally 

 constructed have been already touched upon; 

 it may therefore be said to have been estab- 

 lished five and twenty years. The sale 

 realised 1250 guineas, the late Marquis of 

 Hastings purchasing twenty-eight couples 

 for 780 guineas, which was the first intima- 

 tion of his intention to hunt the country ; 

 in fact, he had not even adopted the usual 

 course of consulting the wishes of the 

 owners of coverts. Charles Pike, who had 



