Excerpt from The Quorn Hunt and Its Masters

When the idea compiling this book was originally conceived, the intention was that it should enter more into detail than was subsequently found to be possible without making the work unduly bulky. On this account it is that runs are mentioned sparingly. Captain Pennell-Elmhirst's "The Cream of Leicestershire" and "The Best Season on Record, " though extending over no more than seven years, together exceed the size of this outline sketch. An account of a good run, penned by one who can both ride and write, makes charming reading, but a mere enumeration of the points touched would interest no one. After perusing the diary kept for about ten years by "Cork-legged Jones" (seep. 51), and the accounts of other runs, one is perhaps warranted in arriving at the conclusion that sport aforetime did not materially differ from that enjoyed at the present day.

Nearly all the history of the Ouorn which has already been printed has concerned Mr. Meynell, Mr. Assheton Smith, and Mr. Osbaldeston, and as so much has been said about the two latter, the reason is given at page 85 why these two heroes are here dealt with somewhat shortly. All available sources have been searched, and the aim has been to give as many as possible of little-known facts and anecdotes, and not to reproduce, to a greater extent than is absolutely necessary, matter which in book, newspaper, and magazine has been published over and over again.

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