CHAPTER VI 



SEASON 1875-76 



Belvoir Blood and Competition "Gillard's Compound" Alfred Orbell 

 Whipper-in Gillard's Opinion on digging out Foxes The Rev. 

 " Billy" Newcome of Boothby and Mr. Banker Hardy of Gran- 

 tham the last Home A Run in the Fens piloted by Mr. F. Smith 

 Lenton Church Spire Cuthbert Bede's Pen Peck, the second 

 Whipper-in, has an awkward Experience Mr. Micklethwaite on 

 Sport and Marriage The Gray Horse Sluggard Retrenchment 

 and Subscription from the Lincolnshire Side Fox killed in a 

 Brewing Tub at Sleaford Mr. Tom Oliver A good Day in 

 Leicestershire, and Miss Miles in the Field and on Paper. 



N annual puppy show in the 

 summer is adopted by most 

 kennels throughout the 

 kingdom, but the old order 

 at Belvoir was never to 

 enter into competition on 

 their own flags, or those 

 of Peterborough. Occupy- 

 ing the premier position 

 by general consent, the 

 THE POX ON THE KENNEL. Duke's kennel had no occa- 

 sion to contest. Yet at Peterborough the beautiful 

 Belvoir blood won the ribbands for other packs 



