CHAPTER X 



SEASONS 1879-80 AND 1880-81 



Hunt Changes Tea with Frank Goodall, the Queen's Huntsman A 

 Country equal to the Vagaries of any Weather An awkward 

 Accident Smite Hill Gorse Flames head a Fox The big Ash 

 Wednesday Day Mr. Alfred Brocklehurst first up Colonel 

 Gosling borrows some dry Clothes A kill under a Woman's 

 Petticoats Frank rides a run under Chloroform Will Wells' 

 Horse out all night Twelve - Hour Cubbing Mornings 

 Arthur Wilson, Whip Parson Bullen of Eastwell Wet and 

 good Sport Interviewing the Duke in his Bed The Taste of a 

 ' ' Pug " Blooding a fat American Gentleman A Jackal Tooth 

 Scarf-pin A fast Gallop and dead Fox next Day Lord Queens- 

 bury Lord Doneraile, his Hounds, his pet Fox, his End A long 

 Run. 



A PORTRAIT. 



is the general 

 order of things in this life, 

 but the Belvoir Hunt for a 

 century and a half escaped the 

 common lot, following the even 

 tenor of its way as a family pack 

 under the mastership of the 

 house of Manners. About 

 this time a general change 

 was effected in a compara- 

 tively small circle of the 

 f ox _ hunting world within 



