FORTY YEARS WITH THE MEYNELL. 119 



The speeches were very good, especially Colonel Levett's, 

 who was never more eloquent. 



" It is the custom to say that the Meynell Hunt is not 

 hospitable, but I do not hold with it. We are always 

 glad to see people from the neighbouring Hunts. It is a 

 curious thing, though, that if ever a special came from 

 Melton we had no sport, and, if we went elsewhere, the 

 same thing happened. I remember a large party of us 

 going to Cheshire, and, after chopping our fox, we never 

 found another, though Mr. Corbet drew and drew till 

 dark. Same sort of thing with the Quorn." 



