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most valuable and important acquisition. Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's continuance was but for three 

 years ; though brief, it was brilliant. Here it 

 was that he rendered perfect a large body of 

 hounds he bad brought with him from Notting- 

 hamshire — originally Lord Monson's, which he 

 purchased on his first taking the Burton 

 country. To those were added Lord Vernon's 

 famous pack, and the hounds belonging to 

 Messrs. Hall and Arkwright. Here it was, 

 too, that the Squire matured bis experience 

 previously to entering upon the classic 

 pasture fields of Quorn. A successor was 

 found in Sir Bellingham Graham, whose 

 truly splendid establishment, organised by an 

 unquestionably correct taste for everything 

 appertaining to foxhunting, and for which 

 that distinguished sportsman has ever been 

 celebrated, ensured the esteem of all for 

 whose amusement his exertions were so ably 

 directed. As a huntsman, Sir Bellingham 

 Graham took a first-class position, whether 

 compared with the ranks of amateurs or 

 professionals ; while in the selection of his 

 servants he was unequivocally successful — 

 a fact which subsequent events proclaim. 

 William Staples, Kit Atkinson, John Wig- 



