ii2 THE QUORN HUNT 



bad fall which caused him ever afterwards to object to 

 any one riding near him at a fence. He was hunting 

 with Lord Anson's hounds in the Atherstone country 

 when his horse, after dropping his hind legs into a ditch, 

 rolled over. Sir James Musgrave, riding close in his 

 wake, was not able to stop his horse in time, and jumped 

 first on the Squire's prostrate steed and then on to 

 Mr. Osbaldeston himself, and with such violence as to 

 break his leg in two places. 1 A couple of doctors were 

 fortunately out, and everything possible was done for 

 the unfortunate gentleman ; but at the end of the season 

 1820-21 Mr. Osbaldeston gave up the Ouorn, and ex- 

 changing with Sir Bellingham Graham, who was then 

 master of the Hambledon, went into Hampshire, where 

 however he remained for a short time only, and the 

 spring of 1823 saw him back at Ouorn again, when the 

 sport he had previously shown was to a great extent 

 revived. There was a rumour that the country was 

 short of foxes in some parts ; but whether the state- 

 ment was true or whether steps were taken to remedy 

 the deficiency there is no means of knowing, but at any 

 rate the Squire killed, or is said to have killed, thirty 

 brace of foxes before regular hunting began in Novem- 

 ber 1824. 



During cub-hunting many good runs took place, and 

 November set in with a rare vein of sport. 



On the 15th November 1824 Mr. Osbaldeston met at Sea- 

 grave ; found in Munday's Gorse, and hounds ran the fox to old 

 Dalby Wood, and then after a ring of about four or five miles, 

 hunted him well to Schoby Scholes, where the hounds unluckily 



1 On the day after the Squire's accident Tom Sebright, then first whipper- 

 in, hunted the hounds, and had one of the best runs he ever saw in Leices- 

 tershire. The fox which gave the run was known as " Perpetual Motion " ; 

 he was found at Schoby Scholes, and ran, or is said to have run, to Garthorpe 

 Lodge, a fourteen miles in and out journey, with only one short check, 

 in an hour and twenty minutes, 



