xvi HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



CHAPTER XVIII 



SEASONS 1893-94 AND 1894-95 



Dates of commencing Cub-hunting Foreign Hay The Hounds Old 

 Gambler, Skylark, the Daughter of Druid Too many Foxes killed 

 in a Morning Sir George Whichcote The Hunt Honorary 

 Secretaryship Lord Lonsdale takes the Mastership of the Quorn 

 Frank Gillard's Contemporary, Tom Firr The old Hunt Horse 

 Oscar carries Miss Robinson Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, Mayor of 

 Grantham, and the Meet at the Guild Hall The Fifteen -mile 

 Stubton Run, Mr. S. K. Marsland presented with the Brush at 

 the end of it Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Phillips' Coverts at Staunton 

 The Three Shire Bush Mrs. Bend, the Wife of the Earth-stopper, 

 presented with a Brush Two good Days before the Frost A 

 good Run from Heathcote's Covert with a Bobtail Miss Gertrude 

 Heathcote wins the Belvoir Hunt Red Coat Race The Heathcote 

 Patent Safety Habit The Entry 1894 Mr. W. Theobald Maud 

 on Canvas and in the Field Death of the Hound Nominal The 

 Revival of the Folkingham Meet and a great Day's Sport Lord 

 Willoughby de Eresby presented with the Brush Pulpit Allusions 

 Bad Falls Harry Maiden hunts the Pack The Duke of 

 Rutland's seventy-sixth Birthday The long Frost A good Run 

 and Kill at Newton Hall A good Run and Kill at Lenton 

 Vicarage The Melton Contingent . . . Page 261 



CHAPTER XIX 



SEASON 1895-96 



Stud Hounds at Belvoir Kennel Gillard relating the Merits of each 

 Hound The Families of Gambler, Snamrock, and Pirate com- 

 pared Hard Ground The Fox-hunter's Wedding Opening Day 

 The Buckminster to Edmondthorpe Gallop Record Time The 

 Pack and Huntsman's Horse Another Buckminster to Woodwell 

 Head Gallop Continued good Sport in Leicestershire and Lincoln- 

 shire during January Retirement of the Duke of Rutland The 

 Meeting of the Hunt in Grantham The Hunt Committee Frank 

 Gillard's last Leicestershire Day a brilliant one A Kill in Rank- 

 boro Gorse The Horse Farewell The number of Foxes killed 

 in twenty-six Seasons The new Master, Sir Gilbert Greenall A 

 Tribute to Gillard's Care of the Pack The Testimonial to the 

 retiring Huntsman Sir William E. Welby Gregory's Speech 

 Frank Gillard's Farewell .... Page 278 



