CHAPTER VIII 



SEASON 1877-78 



A scratch Pack v. a thoro'bred Pack The Business of the Summer 

 The blind Master from the Grove Proof of the Pace of the Belvoir 

 Hounds Lord Rossmore surprises Mr. Little Gilmour Nine of 

 the Messrs. Hornsby in one run The Rector of Colsterworth's 

 Cottesmore Hunt Hat Frank's Description of a good Hound Day 

 The Saffron Family as Hounds The Samuda Pink Wedding 

 Another good Hound Day, Senator, Saffron and Brusher The 

 Hound Wellington killed on the Railway A good Run from Melton 

 Spinney Lady Florence Dixie presented with the Brush Story 

 of Captain ' ' Tom " Boyce receiving a Brush and Hunt Button A 

 good Run and Lady Florence Chaplin presented with a Brush The 

 Ash Wednesday Run The Hon. H. H. Molyneux's Collection of 

 Ash Wednesday Masks The Horse Wing gets in the Smite The 

 Hose Gorse black Fox rather wide of his Home. 



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T has been seen in England that 

 a scratch pack has never lasted 

 more than a few seasons, and 

 those who have been content to 

 hunt with any sort of hounds 

 have invariably tired of it before 

 they have arrived at middle age. 

 The old hunts and the veteran 

 sportsmen have owed their exist- 

 ence to the celebrity of packs 

 of foxhounds, and the greatest 

 assistance to sport has been the enticing pleasure 



A COTTESMORE HAT. 



