Excerpt from Thomas' Hunting Diary, 1904-1905 Only the other day, when riding back from stag - hunting on Exmoor, a very keen young sportsman told me he thought Leicestershire was a wide open plain of rich turf. It is well at once to disabuse one's mind of this idea, for there are few absolutely level stretches in Leicestershire. These you may find in Cheshire, but not, so far as I know, in the Midlands. Some parts of the country are almost precipitous, afor example, those who go to Tilton Wood on the first Tuesday in November will find themselves in a steep country, with sharp slopes and rather intricate bottoms, which need a light hand and a clever horse to cross with safety. But, except in some parts of the Monday country of the Quorn and of the Thursday or Saturday country of the Cottesmore, you will be galloping up and down hill all day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.