HILL AND DALE. 81 



J. Cradock, Hume, Gerald Paget, ^Y. Paget, Descliamps, 

 0. Paget, Martin (3), H. T. Barclay, G. Pocliln, B. 

 Lubbock, Parker, Beaumont, W. Chaplin, E. Chaplin, 

 Knowles, G. Lambton, Wade, Simpkin (2), Cart, Knight, 

 Hames, Marshall, Henton. 



The morning episode from Ellar's Gorse the same 

 day only just missed brilliancy through our fox gaining a 

 start of some minutes as he stole away over the brook 

 below the covert. Even then — gauged as a hunting 

 run — there was little to cavil at in the hour's work that 

 led us, with multiplied opportunity for jump and gallop, 

 to the honey-combed banks of Shoby Scoles — where 

 this two-season hunter is in the habit of making good 

 his escape, whether he has to wend his way by a 

 Willoughby-and-Dalby Circle or by means of Six Hills- 

 and-Thrussington Wolds. To-day he laughed at us 

 throudi the former medium. 



Friday, the last day of November, wound up an 

 extremely good month for the Quorn in very consistent 

 fashion. I fancy that everyone who went to Great 

 Dalby must have had his fill of sport and riding before 

 the close of the day. Or, if he failed to do so, it was 

 due to some untoward accident or shortcoming of his 

 own — surely to no fault in the fixre oifered him. For 

 hounds were running hard most of tlie day — choosing 

 ■such lines and circles of country as admitted of everyone 

 obtainino: his share in the fun. Had the two runs been 

 much straightcr and faster, it is certain that some two 

 hundred people could not have gone home content. The 

 first ring — from Gartree Hill — took close upon an hour 



