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and that gentleman only kept the hounds 

 three seasons. Lord Suffield, with a profuse 

 expenditure of the circulating medium, was 

 expected to eclipse every predecessor in this 

 aristocratic region ; but unfortuitous events 

 frustrated those hopes. His lordship ob- 

 tained Mr. Lambton's hounds in exchange for 

 the large sum of 3,000 guineas, and he built 

 new kennels and stables at Billesdon, but 

 only occupied them one brief season, when 

 the hounds were disposed of to Mr. Robert- 

 son, again to travel northwards. It was a 

 bad scenting season, and with hounds unac- 

 customed to be pressed upon by hard riders 

 the sport was not equal to expectations, when 

 Mr. Hodgson, coming from Holderness in 

 1841 with a remarkably hard-working pack 

 of hounds, by a succession of good runs, 

 redeemed the somewhat faded fame of this 

 celebrated country. Two short seasons, how- 

 ever, terminated the career of this gentleman 

 as master of the Quorn — he was every inch a 

 sportsman. 



After quitting the glories of Leicester- 

 shire, Mr. Hodgson retraced his steps to his 

 former country where he had so very many 

 friends ; and in about two years an appoint- 



