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huntsman), who came over to have a look at them, 

 declared that he never saw a pack work better. A fox 

 was found at Cream Gorse and gave a pretty good 

 run for six miles, when he was lost. Barkby Holt was 

 the next draw, but nothing else to speak of resulted 

 during the day. 



Melton had filled up very well, but the frost in 

 December sent most of the visitors up to town till 

 hunting was again possible. Meantime a statistician 

 had gone round the stables and discovered that Lord 

 Wilton had seven horses, Lord A. St. Maur (the late 

 Duke of Somerset) eleven, Colonel Wyndham seven, 

 Count Batthyany eleven, Count Moseley twelve, Sir 

 James Musgrave twelve, Mr. Crawfurd fifteen, Mr. 

 Moore ten, Mr. Surtees ten, Mr. Oliver ten, Mr. White 

 twelve, Mr. Gilmour twelve, and Mr. Cook nine. This 

 was a great falling off from the number of horses kept 

 in olden days, when the studs sometimes amounted to 

 between twenty and thirty, as mentioned in previous 

 chapters. Melton, too, was then hardly what it had 

 been, as many of the followers of the Quorn preferred 

 Leicester on account of its railway convenience. 



By judicious heading and tailing Mr. Greene had 

 cut down his seventy couples of hounds to fifty couples 

 of working hounds, and their excellence in drawing, 

 hunting, and running was universally admitted. Mr. 

 Greene rode well up to his hounds, and so of course 

 did Lord Gardner ; and as a follower pointed out, it was 

 wonderful how Mr. Greene managed to eet alone, 

 seeing that he allowed himself five horses only for four 

 days a week, while Lord Gardner had fifteen. Between 

 the style of riding of the two men there was a vast 

 difference, however. Mr. Greene rode with "Teat 

 judgment, never taking a liberty with his horses, but 

 always saving them as far as possible, while Lord 

 Gardner, knowing that he had plenty to fall back upon, 



