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Neither huntsman appears to have been very free with 

 the horn, as one follower of the Quorn says that he 

 only remembers to have heard it once in four days, 

 and that was when a hound was lost. He was, how- 

 ever, a master of hound-lore and hunting. So, too, was 

 Raven, and several stories testifying to his knowledge 

 of hunting are extant. On one occasion a famous 

 hound called Guzman was running a hare, the hound 

 being on one side of a hedge and the hare on the 

 other. A whipper-in galloped on to stop Guzman, 

 when Raven called to him, " Let him alone ; he will 

 stop of his own accord when he sees what he is 

 running." And so he did. 



Jack Raven's death is nowhere mentioned, so far as 

 I have been able to discover ; but on very good autho- 

 rity I learn that he was drowned in the river Soar, not 

 far from the kennels, while returning home after " a pipe 

 and a glass." It is supposed that he slipped off the 

 bank. 



The establishment of Mr. Meynell, though framed 

 on the lines of efficiency and governed by a master 

 hand, does not appear to have excelled what may be 

 termed a strictly workmanlike standard ; but Lord 

 Sefton carried on the Hunt with great magnificence. 

 He was at his prime when he succeeded to the country ; 

 he smartened up the men and their livery ; put them 

 on much better horses, while the master himself, a 

 welter weight, rode the best hunters that money could 

 buy. For Rowland, Plato, and Gooseberry he gave well 

 on for a thousand pounds each, while to Mr. Loraine 

 Smith he offered eight hundred pounds for his famous 

 Hollyhock horse. Unfortunately for the "long Squire 

 of Enderby Hall" the offer was refused, as the horse 

 died not long afterwards during a run, from the rupture 

 of a blood-vessel. The prices of good hunters, however, 

 ruled high in those days, as in 1802 two horses, the 



