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T leave a lengthen'd space 



Where bachelors forlorn may find a place ; 

 Aylesford and Dartmouth, gallant Craven, May, 

 All-polish'd Mayler, and Sir Robert Gay. 



This round of labour ruddy health insures, 

 To courage stirs, to hardiness inures ; 

 Thus traiu'd, my masters, you would meet the foe 

 Furious to battle, as to covert go. 

 A cavalry already form'd the French to rout, 

 And Tally-ho ! your frantic war-whoop, shout. 

 But hold ! our furrows in the blade look green, 

 Our burden'd ewes their tender lambs 'gin yean ; 

 Timely you cease, of damages afraid, 

 Nor injure lands for summer crops new laid, 

 Pastures revive — foxes shall breed and rear, 

 Strong and inviting cubs for next Leap Year. — Shallow. 



No. V. 



QUORN IN 1816 ; AND FOX-HUNT AT LEICESTER. 



Mr. Bruce Campbell, in a letter to the Nottingham Guardian, 

 published soon after the death of Mr. Assheton Smith, thus describes 

 one of his famous leaps, which, he says, eclipsed anything he had ever 

 witnessed,* *'It was in the year 1816, the Quorn hounds were coming 

 with their fox from Gai'endon Park for Breedon Cloud or Donnington 

 Park. Over the ox-fields, near Langley Priory, they came, not mute 

 yet not very musical (the scent was too good to allow of that accom- 

 paniment), sterns down, heads up, no one with them except their 

 owner. Between the old Priory and Diseworth Grange there is a 

 mill-dam, deep and wide, which the hounds crossed, and well up with 

 thehi their dauntless master charged it at full gallop, clearing the 

 same in the most gallant and successful style. He was followed, but 

 not in equal fashion, by one of his whippers-in. The rest of the field, 

 in over-due time, came up, but, on seeing the * awful guph,' they one 

 and all turned east and west, and tried, as best they could, to regain 

 the line of the hounds." 



We find in the Sporting Magazine iorATpril, 1808, the following account 

 of the curious termination of a memorable run : — " The inhabitants of 

 Gran by Street, Leicester, were, on Saturday, the 9th March last, agreea- 

 bly surprised by the termination of a fox-chase. The Quorn hounds found 



* Vide Note, page 26. 



