12 THE BILLESDON HUNT. 



are fences that will defy the powers of man 

 and horse. There seems to be some dis- 

 crepancy as to the orthography of this name. 

 In Jones' ancient diary, from which I quoted 

 in my description of the Ouorn Hunt, it is 

 rendered Caundle, and on the authority of 

 residents I have on previous occasions 

 written it Cauldwell, perhaps associating Its 

 etymology with the brook below, in which, 

 many an adventurer has had a cauld bath. 

 I find on reference to the ordnance map It 

 is Caudwell, an authority which I presume 

 cannot be disputed. 



Very fond, anxious, affectionate mothers, 

 are said to exert their Influences over sons 

 ere they are emancipated from the foster- 

 ing care of apron-strings, to eschew late 

 hours at the gay metropolis ; with equal 

 earnestness they should exhort those of older 

 growth, if strangers to the by-ways of 

 Leicestershire, not to remain too late with 

 hounds, so as to encounter a long ride home 



