xiv HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



Belvoir Hunt Steeplechase Course A Leicestershire Spin The 

 Marquis of Waterford A critical Field out for the last Day's 

 Sport ....... Page 180 



CHAPTER XIV 



SEASONS 1885-86 AND 1886-87 



Six Masters of Hounds out Cub-hunting Mr. Brockton of Farndon 

 The big Day of the Season ending at Blankney Good Hound 

 Work A Day with Lord Lonsdale's Hounds at Blankney Blood- 

 ing Lord William Manners Mr. Basil Cochrane The hardest Day 

 of the Season with many Leicestershire Foxes Home on Foot, 

 all the Horses beat Three of the Hunt Horses Frank Beers the 

 Grafton Huntsman A Note about the Brocklesby Kennel Several 

 good Days A Run and Kill by the Forty-Foot Drain A Wedding 

 Special saves the Pack from Destruction A good March Gallop 

 and Kill in an Ash Tree A Note of Music in Frank's Diary The 

 Fowl-House Door opens to the Name of the Duke . Page 193 



CHAPTER XV 



SEASONS 1887-88 AND 1888-89 



Gillard's Family Frank Gillard, junior, joins the Hunt Staff A good 

 Run from Sapperton Wood ; Mr. John Gubbins presented with the 

 Brush Mr. Cecil Rudkin goes hard Hunting till Dark The 

 Belvoir and Cottesmore Hounds come together in the Field The 

 Hound Cottesmore Prodigal The Kennels to which Frank went 

 for Blood Old Sir Thomas Whichcote's Opinion of the Day, and 

 his Letter The late Duke of Clarence Death of Mrs. Willson of 

 Rauceby Dangers of a Swallow-Hole Mr. Otho Paget jumps 

 locked Railway Gates Death of the Master, the Sixth Duke 

 of Rutland Succession of the Seventh Duke of Rutland Stud 

 Hounds, the Entry and Nominal Good Hound Day by Culver- 

 thorpe Aswarby Foxes An Accident to the Hound Van Mr. 

 Jolland wins a Fen-Land Fox's Brush Count Zhrowski Lost 

 Hounds finding their Way back Ash Wednesday drops out of the 

 Fixtures Mr. Richard Fen wick presented with a Brush A Lady 

 of eighty-six presented with her first Brush Captain Pennell 

 Elmhirst's Tribute to Gillard's Vigour and Keenness at the end of 

 his nineteenth season Huntsman . . . Page 208 



