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Frank driving the unicorn team, got as far as 

 Harston, where the leader was taken off, reducing 

 the team to a pair of wheelers, one of which was 

 an untried underbred horse, who when half way 

 down the hill turned restive, threw himself away 

 from the pole, upsetting the van by running the 

 wheel up the bank. Unfor- 

 tunately, Gillard could not get 

 clear from the apron which 

 strapped him on, and the van 

 falling on his leg fractured it 

 badly. The two whippers-in 

 escaped unhurt, George Cham- 

 pion bruised his arm, but no 

 damage was fortunately done 

 to the hounds. 



Letters of sympathy came 

 from all corners of England, 

 and the concern expressed for 

 the speedy recovery of the 

 Duke's huntsman might well 

 have made an archbishop or a 

 prime minister turn green with 

 envy. Amongst this mass of ^ G ~ ME Lan Fox> M>PJL 

 correspondence we select the 

 letter of the veteran master of the Bramham 

 Moor, who wrote: "These accidents come when 

 we least expect them, and must be borne with 

 patience." Mr. George Lane Fox then went 

 on to talk of hounds and hound-breeding, which 

 must always be interesting, coming from such a 

 source. "The Duke of Beaufort's Render I 



