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Ledges, had laid a tliick silvery crust on tlie still green 

 leaves, and now proceeded to play tlie same trick on our 

 weatherworn locks as we wended a hard and slippery 

 way to covert. The Quorn meet was at Wartnaby ; and 

 here, as soon as the higher and usually colder ground was 

 reached, blue sky w^as overhead, and a bright sun bade 

 circulation and spirits reassert themselves. There is no 

 pleasing novelty in frozen fingers ; and a foxhunter's toes 

 are his most assailable members. The miser}^ that intense 

 cold calls forth in his extremities is apt to suffuse and 

 stagnate his whole being — rendering neither his company 

 nor his appearance a medium of jo}' to others. Some of 

 us are of course more easily made cold, as some of us are 

 more readily made cross — or have already been made 

 uglier — than others. It may be possible to combat these 



tendencies, especially the last . But this is a subject 



we need not open here : one section of these disagree- 

 ables, the cold, is tolerably certain to pursue us, with 

 what degree of pertinacity remains to be seen, during the 

 comino; winter. 



Monday's was altogether a hill morning, on the heights 

 of ITolwell Mouth and Wartnaby. Hounds had to work 

 as best they could, amid ironworks and waggonways more 

 in keeping with Durham than Leicestershire — and if the 

 scene had any fascination of its own it was to be found, 

 not in a very meagre pursuit, not in the gangs of yellow 

 fustianed workmen or their screaming clattering ballast 

 train, but in the merry sunshine and the beauty-laden 

 carriao;es that formed a show so rare and dazzlinp^. 



So much for the morning. The afternoon began in 



