CHAPTER XII 



CAPTAIN BURNS-HARTOPP'S FINAL 



SEASONS 



Season 1900-1901 



SOME nice little gallops in October gave pro- 

 mise of good sport later on ; but the promise 

 was not fulfilled, and the two first months 

 were barren of anything approaching first class. In 

 the previous season the Quorn had the lion's share 

 of luck ; but in this everything went wrong. Capt. 

 Burns-Hartopp broke his pelvis the second week 

 in November, and was in a very serious state for 

 some weeks. No master could have worked harder 

 in the interests of the hunt, and, after a summer 

 devoted to getting things in shape, it was cruel 

 luck to be laid up for the rest of the season. How- 

 ever, he was fortunate to have pulled through. 



This season was Mr. Evan Hanbury's first with 

 the Cottesmore, and he is yet another of the good 

 sportsmen who have passed out of this world during 

 the war. 



The new master had been one of the regular 

 followers of the Cottesmore for some years, and I 

 had many a pleasant ride with him. His reputation 

 at that time for jumping big fences earned for him 

 the name of " Jumping Josh," and any particularly 



forbidding bit of timber from which most people 



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