THE QUORN 



1821-23 



Sir Bellingham this season started cub-hunting 

 on 6th August at Lee Wood ; he appears to have 

 been well off for hounds, as he twice brought out 

 fifty couples in August. 



Ground very hard and dry, but they made a 

 good start, killing eleven foxes in the first nine 

 days ; on 5th September, although they did not 

 kill, hounds had a good day's sport ; after hunting 

 two foxes in the morning at Swithland, found in 

 a small gorse, and ran very fast by Woodhouse 

 and Beaumanor to Swithland and back, '' losing 

 him when they got on the fallow — a good twenty- 

 five minutes/' 



He says later on : '* Dry and bad weather for 

 hunting beyond what I ever recollect " ; and 2 gain : 

 '' The hounds were running near eight hours 

 under a burning sun " at Widmerpool. One day 

 in October he appears to have enjoyed himself 

 much, when hounds slipped away with a fox from 



Whittington Rough, and they ran by Thornton 



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