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I have so greatly enjoyed these cub-hunting runs with their freedom from crowding and crush, that I can heartily endorse the opinion of Captain Elmhirst, who says: "Call it cub-hunting, or call it what you like, there will be few merrier mornings before Xmas than that of the Quorn on the last days of September."
Of late years there has been the sale of the Quorn for, it was said, P3,000, and the late Lord Willoughby de Broke valued the North Warwickshire for the county to purchase at P2,500. In 1903 the Atherstone was valued by Mr. Rawlence, the well-known representative of Tattersall's, at P3,500, or something like P50 a hound, and that has been considered very cheap.
Such a wicked plot you never heard in all your life. 'The count's on board, he says, 'and the arms is on board. The count won't land until he gets both arms and ammunition. Colonel Quorn won't 'hand over neither arms nor ammunition, he says, 'until he gets that forty thousand pounds. The very minute he gets that money he hands it over to Colonel Quorn, he gets the arms, and he lands.
Crasher before me and opened a vista on my future of all that was fast, furious and fashionable. When I was told that I was going to sit next to the Master of the Quorn at dinner, my excitement knew no bounds. Gordon Cunard whose brother Bache owned the famous hounds in Market Harborough had insisted on my joining him at a country- house party given for a ball.
DORCHESTER, November 2, '97. Handed in at QUORN at 9.10 a.m. Received here at 11.1 a.m. To SIR H. HAWKINS, The Judges' House, Dorchester. Just returned from Badminton to find the most charming present from you, which I shall always regard with the greatest value, and think you are too kind, in giving me such a present. Am writing.
Cowboys from the vast plains of the North-West, gentlemen who ride hard with the Quorn or the Belvoir, gillies from the Sutherland deer-forests, bushmen from the back blocks of Australia, exquisites of the Raleigh Club or the Bachelor's, hard men from Ontario, dandy sportsmen from India and Ceylon, the horsemen of New Zealand, the wiry South African irregulars these are the Reserves whose existence was chronicled in no Blue-book, and whose appearance came as a shock to the pedant soldiers of the Continent who had sneered so long at our little Army, since long years of peace have caused them to forget its exploits.
"This gentleman," the count responded, "is in full possession of my confidence. This is Mr. Quorn, Captain Fyffe. I was telling Captain Fyffe at the moment of your arrival," he continued, "the nature of our business. I shall rely upon his judgment of the goods you have for sale." "That's all right," said Mr. Quorn.
These, he said, were planted all over the kingdom; some at Melton, to ''unt with the Quorn'; some at Northampton, to ''unt with the Pytchley'; some at Lincoln, to ''unt with Lord 'Enry'; and some at Louth, to ''unt with' he didn't know who. What a fine flattering, well-spoken world this is, when the speaker can raise his own consequence by our elevation!
He had sailed with Quorn for some undecided part of the Italian coast, and we had resigned ourselves to hear no more of him for at least another fortnight. We were all busy enough at this time, and news favorable to our enterprise came on us thick and fast every day. This is no place for a history of the last Italian revolution.
"At Quorn," I repeat, and then I find the letter which Lord Lonsdale was writing. This is it: CHURCHILL COTTAGE, QUORN, LOUGHBOROUGH, Tuesday, November 2, '97. MY DEAR SIR HENRY, How can I thank you enough for your magnificent present? Why you should have so honoured me I do not know, but that I fully value your kindly thought I do know. Is there any chance of your being in these parts?
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