History of Leicestershire of the county council, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Leicester City FC and Leicestershire Scouts is the red fox. Leicestershire is considered to be the birthplace of fox hunting as it is known today. Hugo Meynell of Quorn, Master of the Quorn Hunt 1753–1800, is known as the father of fox hunting. Melton Mowbray and Market Harborough have associations with fox hunting, as has neighbouring Rutland. History of Leicestershire in 1807 , the first recorded use of the name was as "Laegrecastrescir". In the Anglo-Saxon period the area was originally in the territory of the Middle Angles and later Mercia. After
The Wolf and the Fox attention and is again severely beaten. Some time later, the Wolf again makes the Fox get food. The Fox says he knows of a farmer's cellar where meat is being stored, and leads the Wolf to the cellar. The wolf gobbles up the meat while the Fox also takes some but keeps checking to make sure he can still get out the way he came in. The Fox's constant scurrying gets the attention of the farmer, who goes to investigate. The Fox is able to escape, but the Wolf has eaten so much that he can't get out and is