352 THE QUORN HUNT 



amends were made just afterwards by an excellent day's 

 sport on Monday, January 7. In the morning hounds 

 ran fast for fifty-three minutes, making what was esti- 

 mated a six-mile point ; while in the afternoon they ran 

 hard for half-an-hour without anything worthy of really 

 being called a check. Nearly every horse was knocked 

 up, or the pursuit might have been continued. Both 

 runs took the hounds into the Belvoir territory, and both 

 were run over a splendid country. The hounds met in 

 the morning at Old Dalby, among those present being 

 Mr. Coupland, Lady Wilton, Lady Cardigan, Lord 

 Belper, the Messrs. and Miss Chaplin, the Duke of 

 Portland, Lord Manners, &c. Neither run, however, 

 ended with a kill. 



Only a few days afterwards Mr. Hed worth Barclay 

 met with a somewhat severe accident, his horse falling 

 at a big fence, and rolling over its rider, who clung to 

 the reins, while the horse, in his endeavours to regain 

 his feet, kicked Mr. Barclay twice on the head, render- 

 ing him unconscious ; but the Ouorn men were glad to 

 hear, on inquiry the next day, that he was progressing 

 favourably. 



At this time (1884) Lord Lonsdale, who had been 

 for a short time master of the Blankney, met by invita- 

 tion at Scraptoft Hall, in the Quorn country, the hounds, 

 men, and horses travelling by special train to Leicester. 

 The Blankney hounds had been bought by Lord Lons- 

 dale from Mr. Chaplin, and represented what careful 

 breeding had done for the pack handed over by Lord 

 Henry Bentinck. The first item of the day was a run 

 with a ringing fox from Scraptoft Gorse, and he went 

 to ground between Scraptoft and Billesdon Coplow. 

 Another fox found at the Coplow gave a gallop to the 

 Cottesmore Woods. The pack had a good deal of the 

 fun to themselves ; but near Tilton Wood a fresh fox 

 jumped up in a fallow, and him they drove through the 



