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the run out, and had to ride more than thirty-three miles home. 

 On the grass the pace was fast, but as a good deal of ploughed 

 land lay in the way, the pace, of course, slackened at times. In 

 the absence of Mr. Greene, Day went and found another fox at 

 Round Hill Gorse, whence another very good run ensued for a 

 short time, but scent died away, and the hounds were taken home. 



The master of the Ouorn be^an his second season 

 (1842-43) by breaking a rib, the result of his horse 

 having fallen upon him. He was one day hunting before 

 the snow had completely vanished — in fact, in some 

 places it was five feet deep — and while jumping over a 

 set of posts and rails from a bridle-road leading from 

 Holwell Mouth to Kettleby, the horse slipped off a frozen 

 bank, and catching the top rail with his knees, fell and 

 rolled heavily on Mr. Greene. Luckily this was only 

 three miles from Melton, whither he was taken by a 

 friend, and conveyed home in a post-chaise ; but the 

 broken rib and the shock kept him out of the saddle 

 for some little time. 



Mr. Greene's likeness, by the way, was painted by 

 Mr. William Scott ; afterwards engraved in mezzotint, 

 and had a large sale. 



How impossible it is to satisfy everybody is seen 

 from a letter which appeared in Bell's Life in the year 

 1842. The writer, apparently a hunting man, being, as 

 he described himself, "upon the shelf," made up for 

 active participation in hunting by reading all that was 

 written on the sport. Bell's Life published a great deal 

 of hunting news, amongst it letters from the Quorn 

 country, and this writer took exception to the style of 

 the communications addressed to that once all-powerful 

 sporting paper : — 



I read with " satisfaction," certainly not " unmixed," the pro- 

 ceedings of the Quorndon, as frequently detailed by a Leicester 

 correspondent. If that contributor to your sporting intelligence 

 would be less lavish of his fulsome panegyrics on Mr. Greene, and 



