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slipped ofif, pointing for Barton. Now is the time for 

 a spirt across this inviting line of country, if you can 

 get through the crowd, and are not afraid of the fences, 

 for the hounds go as if they meant it ; then they bend 

 round and make for Wicklow Lodge, away across 

 Sandy Lane, the fox evidently intending to return to 

 Gartree Hill ; but the country, notwithstanding the 

 rain of the previous day, was hard and the scent bad, 

 consequentlynothing more could be done with him. After 

 which the hounds were taken to the well-known cover, 

 *' Sir Francis Burdett's ^^ by name — which seldom fails 

 — and here again a view halloo is promptly heard, and 

 a fox goes away. The scent, however, being cold and 

 bad, no good could be done with him, and, after 

 ringing about for a considerable time, he was lost. 

 Thus ended the last public day with the Quorn, for, 

 though they continued to draw after losing their 

 second fox, there was no further sport worth recording. 

 In consequence of Mr. Tailby having given up his 

 hounds, after hunting the Billesdon side of the Quorn 

 country for the last twenty-two years, a dissension has 

 arisen which is deeply to be regretted. Upon Mr. 

 Tailby signifying his intention to retire, it was consi- 

 dered desirable by the members of the Quorn Hunt to 

 re- assume that portion of their territory, which, as 

 they allege, had only been held on sufferance by Mr. 

 Tailby. In the meantime Sir Bache Cunard had come 

 forward offering to hunt the country resigned by Mr. 

 Tailby, in which movement he was supported by seve- 

 ral covert owners and a considerable number of tenant 

 farmers in the district. It would appear, on examina- 

 tion of the documents which I have had the opportu- 

 nity of perusing, that the Quorn are clearly in the right 



