CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



THE QUORN COUNTRY— MELTON MOWBRAY— QUORN 

 KENNELS— QUORN HOUNDS. 



The Early Quorn Country, 3. Boundaries in days of Messrs. Boothby 

 and Meynell, 4. Atherstone and Donington portions, 4. Unfair 

 hunting of the country, 5. Hunting the Donington side, 5. Third 

 Marquis of Hastings, 5. Lord Ferrers's country, 6. The Harborough 

 side and Mr. Sutton, 7. Quorn dispute, 8, 9. Melton Mowbray, 10. 

 Mr. Ralph Lambton, 10. Quorndon Club, 10. Old Club, 11. New and 

 Lord Rokeby's Clubs, 11. Lord Alvanley and his top-boots, 12. His 

 remark to Lord Foley, 12. Melton hotels of old, 13. Marquis of 

 Waterford, 12. Scarlet dress-coats, 14. Midnight steeplechase, 15. 

 "Pulpit utterances" on, 16. Sunday horse-clothing, 16. An autocratic 

 stud-groom, 17. Larking home, 18. Dream of an old Meltonian, 18. 

 Quorn kennels, 23. Mr. Meynell's first, 23. At Quorndon Hall, 24. 

 At Humberstone Gate, 24. At Thrussington, 24. At Billesdon, 24. 

 Description of Quorn kennels, 25. Quorn hounds, 27. Mr. Boothby's, 

 27. Mr. Meynell's and Lord Sefton's, 27. Queer'em and Quornite, 28. 

 Mr. Assheton Smith's, 28. Hounds of Mr. Musters, Mr. Osbaldeston, 

 Sir Bellingham Graham, and Lord Southampton, 28. Lord Suffield's, 

 Mr. Hodgson's, Sir Richard Sutton's, and Lord Stamford's hounds, 29. 

 The Craven hounds bought by Mr. Coupland, 30. The Quorn hounds 

 bought for the country, 30. Quorn Alfred and Watchman, 31. 



CHAPTER II 



MR. BOOTHBY AND MR. MEYNELL 



An ideal hunting country, 35. Vale of Cashmere, 35. An Easter Monday 

 hunt, 6. Mr. Boothby, 37. Charnwood Forest, 37. Mr. Boothby's 

 horn, 38. Pattern of horns, 40. Boothby family and racing, 41. Mrs. 

 Boothby, 41. Prince Boothby's suicide, 42. Mr. Meynell buys Quorn- 

 don Hall, 43. Cock-fighting, 43. Ball at Quorndon, 44. Theatricals, 



