cH.vp. III.] Mr. J. Chaworth Mzisters, Master. 8 1 



ceeded in dodging the enemy, and sending them empty 

 away. It was supposed, however, that on the following 

 day the poor " demon,^^ still aweary and stiff from his 

 bucketting, fell a victim to George Carter and the 

 Grafton hounds, who came across him before he was 

 sufficiently recovered to find his way back to his ^'^ lares " 

 at Hunsbury Hill. Another fox, always at home at Sulby 

 Gorse when called upon, had often been '^ one too 

 many" for Mr. Musters; and Mr. Osbaldeston, at that 

 time Master of the Quorn, had frequently been treated 

 in like manner by a " customer ^^ at Gartree Hill. On 

 the last day of the season, each master determined to 

 finish up with a cut at his old foe, and Mr. Musters 

 backed himself for five pounds to bring his fox to hand 

 before the Squire had succeeded in catching his. No 

 sooner had the former put his hounds into cover than an 

 old hound challenged, and away went the "Flyer" 

 pointing for Bos worth, and on past Theddingworth, to 

 Laughton Hills. Here a man had been placed at the 

 ^'earths," so he retraced his steps, running the same line 

 back. Near Theddingworth, he was viewed in a large 

 pasture, but Mr. Musters declined to lift his hounds a 

 yard, saying that he would not take an unhandsome 

 advantage of so good an animal. This over-chivalrous 

 spirit lost him his fox, and his five pounds as well. A 

 flock of sheep brought the hounds to a check, the scent 

 suffered from a passing storm, and though he was spoken 

 to on the Harbro' and Welford Road, nothing could 

 be made of it ; so that again the fortunate tenant of 

 Sulby Gorse saved his brush, and lived to fight another 

 day. 



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