10 The Hunting Countries of England. 



Stubton is a favourite meet^ as Mr. Neville, though 

 not hunting himself, takes a delight in providing sport 

 for others. From Stubton Gorse to Wellingore is a 

 line of which foxes are fond. Take out a big jumper 

 or you will not ride it ! 



Other meets between Leadenham and Grantham 

 are Belton Park, Syston Park, Hough-on-the-Hill, 

 Caythorpe Hall, and Fulbeck Hall — and for the 

 last two you want a horse that can travel the Stubton 

 country. 



Turning to the Melton district, other conditions 

 have to be considered, other essentials to be borne in 

 mind and other requirements to be set forth. We 

 have spoken hitherto only of what we may designate 

 as the home country of the Belvoir — and we use this 

 term by no means in a depreciatory sense, but yet as 

 implying scene and surroundings totally different but 

 to many minds preferable, to that found in the district 

 with which we are now about to deal. Real sport — 

 and nothing but the sport — being the primary object, 

 we are inclined to concede (if only by way of fore- 

 stalling argument) that such is more likely of attain- 

 ment on the Lincolnshire than the Leicestershire side 

 of the Belvoir country. For in the former division the 

 ground is, at least here and there, equally favourable ; 

 the hounds are the same, while the foxes are un- 

 doubtedly better. In the one you have a local field, 

 of reasonable dimensions and less ardent aspiration; 

 the huntsman has every chance, hounds every facility, 

 and the unambitious man every opportunity of seeing 

 all that is to be seen. In the latter you have a 

 swollen field, a jealous — no, let us say, a zealous — 



