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THE QUORN HUNT 



Captain Warner produced evidence to show that a 

 frost set in on the 23rd of December 1892, and lasted 

 until the 23rd January 1893, during which period 

 hounds were in kennel. The story as told by the 

 plaintiff and his witnesses was that, when the hounds 

 entered the field they ran after the cows, and, jumping 

 up, snapped at their heads and drove them before them, 

 causing them to pick their calves. Captain Warner, 

 however, admitted that the hounds did cross the field 

 in question about the 23rd of January, but he saw no 

 cows. Tom Firr gave evidence to the same effect, and 

 was sure that no cows went in front of hounds ; he 

 never heard of any hounds jumping up at cattle, and, 

 with pardonable pride in the behaviour of his own 

 pack, expressed a hope that no hounds of which he 

 had charge would ever be guilty of such unfoxhound- 

 like conduct. 



Captain Warner was as good as his word, and retired 

 at the end of the season 1892-93. The horses were sold 

 at the Leicester Repository on the 13th May 1893, by 

 Messrs. Warner, Sheppard, and Wade, twenty-five 

 hunters selling for 1944 guineas, the highest price being 

 270 guineas. 





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