360 THE QUORN HUNT 



with the consent of Mr. Parry, who owned the place, had 

 enclosed at his own expense three or four acres of 

 ground and sowed them with gorse. The enclosure was 

 away from the road, sheltered and surrounded on every 

 side, and it seemed a most desirable covert for foxes to 

 take up their abode in. 



On New Year's Day, in Lord Manners's last year of 

 mastership, a somewhat peculiar accident occurred at 

 Syston, which happily was not attended with the fatal 

 results which might very easily have been its accompani- 

 ment. A couple of hunting men were returning home 

 after a good run, and were jogging along at the rate of 

 about six miles an hour, the one on the road, the other 

 on the footpath, a crime for which he might now be 

 severely punished by the authorities. A vehicle drawn 

 by one horse passed the two riders and shortly after- 

 wards came into collision with a carriage, the evening 

 being very dark. One wheel of the carriage was knocked 

 completely off, the occupants being thrown out, and the 

 horse then rushed off with the shafts dangling at its 

 hocks. A little further on it came into collision with the 

 horse of the man who was riding in the road, and the 

 shock was so great — it being what the Americans would 

 term a " head-end collision " — that the necks of both 

 horses were broken, both falling dead together in the 

 middle of the road. Neither the rider nor driver, 

 however, was too much hurt to be taken to his respective 

 home in a cab. 



