144 GOOD SPORT 



Settling to the line, the combined pack ran nicely 

 across the grass vale towards Hickling, checking 

 when opposite Broughton, where the fox had evidently 

 been headed. Capell cast down the Melton turnpike 

 road, and hounds hit it off to the right. The remark 

 made by " Q " of the Field, who knows Leicester- 

 shire off by heart, was, "It is impossible to find a 

 more charming bit of country ; but to be able to 

 appreciate it property, you want to go a little faster." 

 Tally-ho ! the keeper of the Belvoir log-book in the 

 pages of the Grantham Journal, had no fault to find : 

 "The best of all possible lines, the going good, and 

 the scent serving. The pace was just right over 

 the beautiful grass up to Broughton, helping us 

 over the deep Smite, and the hairy fences, which 

 looked bigger than ever with the leaf still hanging 

 on." The master of the Quorn, well carried by a 

 chestnut thoroughbred, Nonsuch II. by Horning, 

 dam Barbrook, was with hounds all the way, and he 

 said " it was a fair, without being a racing scent, 

 just suiting a big lot of hounds who ran very level." 



It goes without saying that neither huntsman 

 missed an opportunity of drawing attention to any 

 good bit of work by a hound of his own pack. George 

 Leaf said afterwards, " My hounds did not seem to 

 get settled to their work ; they knew there was 

 something strange, but I cheered them on, and then 

 I saw leading, my Diagram ('08) by Belvoir Ragman, 

 from a bitch by Belvoir Daystar. I pointed it out 

 to Capell, and he was just as pleased as I was to 

 see him. I also saw Belvoir Clasher, Victor, Vulcan, 

 and Ragman make a good hit before we got to the 

 railway." 



Roused to energy by the importance of the 

 occasion, a large field were riding along, determined 

 to be wdth hounds, the pace not being too exacting, 



