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Kennel madness was the cause of their being nearly all 

 of them destroyed. Mr, Heron sold his pack many 

 years ago to the Duke of Rutland, and those hounds 

 were extensively used to breed from ; thereiore, in all 

 probability, there is as much or more of the old Quorn 

 blood in the Belvoir kennels than any other. Mr. 

 Meynell Ingram of Hoarcross, Staffordshire, grandson of 

 the celebrated Mr. Meynell, had some of the old blood 

 from Mr. Heron, and that is another kennel to which it 

 can be directly traced. Ten couples of Mr. Meynell's 

 hounds were presented by that renowned sportsman to 

 his friend the late Mr. Musters, who sold his hounds to 

 Mr. T. A. Smith in 1814, when the latter gentleman 

 was hunting the Quorn country. 



The history of Mr. Corbet's celebrated pack with 

 which he hunted Warwickshire is singular, and there- 

 fore deserving of particular notice. He became the 

 purchaser of some harriers at Tattersall's, among which 

 was a bitch named Tidings ; but her pedigree was not 

 known. Being very superior, and having the appear- 

 ance of a dwarf fox-hound, she was sent to the Pytchley 

 kennels and put to the Earl Spencer's Trueboy, and she 

 produced a hound named Trojan, which was entered in 

 1780, ten or twelve years before Mr. Corbet went into 

 Warwickshire, at the time when he hunted in the 

 neighbourhood of Lichfield. Meeting one day at 

 Chillington, a fox was found which ran a ring, and 

 returning leaped the park wall, over which Trojan 

 followed him ; but none of the other hounds could ac- 

 complish it. On being taken through the gate they 

 found Trojan, single-handed, had marked his fox into a 

 drain. He performed ai similar feat of activity at Sand- 

 well Park, the seat of Lord Dartmouth, between 

 Birmingham and Wednesbury. A fox was found in a 

 neighbouring wood, and he cleared the high wall inte 

 Sandwell Park, followed by Trojan only. The pack, 

 as on the former occasion, entered at the gate, and 

 found Trojan carrying on the scent, when the wall at the 

 opposite side arrested their progress, with the exception 



