THE OPENING DAY. SI 



A notice of a Klrby Gate meet would be altogether 

 imperfect without some mention, however incomplete, of 

 those present. Besides many strangers from a distance, 

 there were on horseback, ]\Ir, Coupland and ]\Iiss 

 Webster, Capt. and ]\Irs. Ashton, Mr. and ^h's. 

 Pennington, Mr. H., Mrs., and ]Miss Story, Mr. W. and 

 Miss Chaplin and ]\Iis. ]\loore, ]\Ir. and Mrs. Clifford 

 Chaplhi, Mr. Ernest Chaplin, Capt. and Mrs.. Molyneux, 

 Mrs. Robertson, Miss Paget, Miss Livingston, Miss 

 Baiming, Duke of Portland, Lords ^Manners and Newark, 

 Sir Frederick Fowke, Sir Arthur Scott, ]\LTJor-General 

 Chippindall, Colonel Gosling, Capts. Barclay, Grimston, 

 Campbell, Henry, Hill-Trevor, O'Neil, Whitmore, Good- 

 €liild, Boyce, Starkie, Fowke, Jacobson, Messrs. A. C. 

 Barclay, H. Boden, A. Brockleliurst, Baldock, Beaumont, 

 Bankart, Clayton, Cochrane, Creyke, Conant, Campbell, 

 Custance, Fowke, Farnham, Gleadow, Graham, L. 

 Johnstone, R. AV. Johnson (his thirt3'-second attendance), 

 Knowles, Lubbock, Langmore, ^Manners, ^Martin, Miles, 

 Parker, 0. Paget, G. Paget, Pochin, Peake, Powell, Rose, 

 Seabrooke, Trew, G. "W^ebster, Wade, Fox, Sykes, Brewitt, 

 iSimpkin, Smith, Morris, t^-c, &c. 



AVith pleasant weather, and a right good day's sport, 

 tlie Quorn never opened their season more auspiciously. 

 Excellent sport indeed they had had for a fortnight 

 previous ; but the first Monday in November is their 

 gala day; and is — why I cannot tell — the earliest 

 occasion on which more than half their re2:ular followers 

 can be induced to attend. This matter of toilet can 

 possess no great charms for them — certainly after their 



