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years done a good deal of the earth-stopping for the 

 Ouorn and Cottesmore, and run with the hounds, was 

 too deserving a character to be left out of notice while 

 others were being mentioned. Buttress appears to have 

 been one of the best as well as the most popular of his 

 calling. It was said that he stopped more earths, opened 

 more gates, directed more men on their way home than 

 any other man in the county of Leicestershire ; and there 

 is some reason to believe that he made a very tidy living 

 out of it, although, at the same time, the amount of exer- 

 tion of running four, five, and six days a week should 

 have sufficed to gain more than a competence at any 

 trade which he might have been capable of following. 



In April 1S35 the Meltonian hounds (as they were 

 called), then still in the hands of Mr. Holyoake, met by 

 invitation at Belvoir Castle, where an enormous field 

 assembled. It was quite a function. At noon the Duke 

 of Rutland's carriage, drawn by four horses with pos- 

 tillions, drew up at the fixture, but the sport does not 

 appear to have been very grand, as might be supposed 

 from the time of year. It is true three hours' hunting 

 resulted in the death of a couple of foxes, but the hounds 

 were very little in the open, and the third fox found 

 saved his brush. Among those present were Namick 

 Pasha and his secretary, the pair appearing to enjoy the 

 novel surroundings very much. They managed to be in 

 at the death we are told, but, as already stated, this 

 hardly involved any very great display of horsemanship. 

 Lord and Lady Chesterfield, Lord E. Wortley, Lord 

 Granby, Lord R. Manners, and Lord Rokeby were also 

 present ; while among the spectators who were content to 

 follow on wheels was Madame Cardoro, the cantatrice, 

 who had broken her journey from York to stay at 

 Belvoir Castle, where after dinner she "delighted all 

 the large party of distinguished persons by singing." 

 This was about the last of the season 1834-35, and 



