CHAPTER XI 



SEASON 1881-82 



Trojan kills a Fox single-handed Heathcote Covert Heathcote 

 Hunters, Blue Stockings, Janette, and Miss Coates Hunting in 

 a Hurricane at Aswarby Sir Thomas Whichcote's Pony Will 

 Tidey, the hard-riding Keeper Mr. Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- 

 Coutts joins the Hunt A quick burst in Leicestershire Good 

 Days Folkingham Big Gorse Accident to the Rev. Thomas 

 Heathcote Buying Horses without seeing them Berserker the 

 Hunter Sire Mr. " Banker " Hardy A Run Fox killed by Grey- 

 hounds The gamest Fox ever hunted Arthur Wilson swims the 

 Whissendine Devonshire and Leicestershire Rivers compared 

 Will Wells and Arthur Wilson across Country Will Wells' 

 Testimonial. 



THE depth of the public 

 purse gives the strength 

 of the pulse for sport. 

 A bad time for agriculture 

 means a thousand -and -one 

 industries suffer, and there 

 is a falling off in capital 

 for investment in sport. 

 Owing to a very wet har- 

 vest, for corn stood out in 

 the fields until October, the farmers had a very bad 

 time of it, and the few good samples of wheat 



TKOJAN. 



