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down from London to have a day with the Marquis of 

 Hastings. The advertised time (it was late in March) was 

 twelve o'clock, but the master did not reach the covert- 

 side until after one o'clock ; and then he and some friends 

 went inside Barkby Hall, where they remained until half- 

 past. This delay of course cut the day very short, and 

 after a fox had been found at Barkby Holt, and had run 

 by South Croxton to Baggrave, Mr. Sothern had to 

 leave the hounds in order to catch the train at Leicester, 

 to reach London in time to appear the same evening at 

 the Haymarket. He was greatly annoyed at obtaining 

 so little fun for his money ; but these long waits were 

 unfortunately too common. 



On the Marquis of Hastings giving up the country, 

 the hounds and horses were sold at the kennels on the 

 2nd May 1868. Masters of hounds were well repre- 

 sented, Lord Coventry, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Henry 

 Bentinck, Lord Macclesfield, Colonel Anstruther Thom- 

 son, Mr. Hugo Meynell Ingram, Mr. Harvey Bayly, 

 Mr. Drake, Colonel Jardine (from Forfarshire), Messrs. 

 Vernon, Allsopp, Mr. Francklin (who laid the foundation 

 of his new pack), the Hon. R. Nevill, and Mr. Henley 

 Greaves being among those present, and some of them 

 bought either hounds or horses. Among the assembly 

 of huntsmen was old Tom Day, who was still living at 

 Quorn, and who informed his friends that this was the 

 seventh sale of the Ouorn hounds at which he had 

 been present ; so often had they been dispersed. In the 

 paddock adjoining the kennels a rostrum was erected for 

 Mr. Pain of Tattersall's, who conducted the sale. The 

 Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings were present, and 

 the hounds, which were sold in thirty lots, realised 1057 

 guineas, twenty-nine hunters bringing 3098 guineas. 



