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— the scent much skewer since the village. But he knew of a 

 drain ahout half a mile from the Gorse ; and, half full of water 

 though it was, there he went to ground in safety. 



I have said nothing of the distance covered. The run, 

 indeed, does not hase its chief merit on its point — though it 

 has nothing to he ashamed of even on that head. From Walton 

 Thorns to Frisb}' Village, covered in the first half hour, is four 

 miles as the crow flies ; and there were, as I have tried to 

 show to those who know the countrv, several turns on the way 

 — notably, when the fox was twice foiled in crossing a road. 

 Thus, up to Frishy hounds went at least six miles : and the 

 extreme points of the whole run would he ahout that distance 

 apart. 



The Earl of Wilton is dead : and sincerely and honestly we 

 mourn the loss of one whom all our generation held in rever- 

 ence and admiration, and that of our fathers in esteem. The 

 King of Melton, the Patriarch of the Quorn Hunt, his had in 

 every way been a leading spirit for fifty years. Tn his day the 

 neatest and quickest of riders, all his life one of the most 

 courteous of men — we had been brought up to regard him as 

 a model of a sportsman, an example for a gentleman. Even 

 during the present season, in his eight^'-second 3-ear, he rode 

 out more than once with hounds ; while within the last dozen 

 years he could still dart along in a quick burst, and see his 

 way in and out of a field more deftly and unerringly than men 

 forty years junior to him. To the last days preceding his ill- 

 ness he is said to have enjoyed nothing more than to hear all 

 about a run, when others came in from hunting. There was a 

 gladness in his eye, a kindliness in his greeting, that spoke 

 feelingly of his sympathy with those whose vigour and youth 

 gave them still a full share in the happiness of the sport. 

 Great as had been his own part, he looked with true pleasure 

 — never with grudging or contempt — on that taken b}' j'ounger 

 men : and he has gone out of the world with the affection and 



