CHAPTER VII 



SEASON 1876-77 



John Bull's Top-boots Catching a Lamb -stealer Thomas, Earl of 

 Wilton, Social Whip to the Quorn Turkish Bath for Hunters 

 Mr. Little Gilmour, Prince of the Heavies Sir George Wombwell 

 The Messrs. Behrens The Butcher in Blue The Hound 

 Weathergage entered Belvoir and Brocklesby Entries Will 

 Goodall and Rallywood in 1850 Distinguishing Points of the 

 Belvoir Pack Weathergage's Pedigree Mr. Burbidge of Thorpe 

 and his Fox Covert A Kill in Staunton Churchyard Lord 

 John Manners across Country Sir Beaumont and Lady Florence 

 Dixie Major Whyte Melville Captain Pennell Elmhirst Melton 

 Spinney The longest Run of the Season Lord Carrington 

 The best Day of the Season The Horse Melon Presentation of 

 Plate to the Sixth Duke of Rutland, and his Speech. 



TWENTY-SIX seasons 

 is no considerable 

 period when marking 

 the flight of time, yet 

 in the history of a pack 

 of hounds it gives 

 a record of many 

 changes in the way 

 we live and conduct 

 our sport. When 

 SWEPT OVER EVERYTHING IN CHASE. Gillard commenced to 



hunt the Belvoir hounds, a fine old generation of 



