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so remarkable a run, for we had covered twenty-six 

 miles of country. I let him have it, but as his 

 Grace the Duke of Rutland expressed a wish next 

 day to possess it, I wrote to Mr. Coupland, and he 

 very kindly returned it, so that I had it set up in a 

 case and placed in the room at the kennels." The 

 field who rode this run included Mr. Burdett-Coutts, 

 Mr. Edgar Lubbock, Mr. Francis Crawley, Mr. 

 Ernest Chaplin, Mr. Lionel Trower, Mons. Roy, 

 and Mons. Couturie, all from Grantham. Then 

 there were Mr. J. C. Coupland, Mr. Craig, Captain 

 Hume, and the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke to represent 

 Melton ; Mr. Fisher of Orston, Dr. Williams of 

 Colston Basset, Mr. John Marriott of Cropwell, 

 and Mr. Henry Smith. To this day the case may be 

 seen at the kennels containing the brush of this 

 memorable fox, and a printed account of the 

 day's sport, with two other trophies. These latter 

 belonged to a fox that was killed the day after 

 Lord Forester's funeral. It was the end of 

 October, but the pack had been stopped for this 

 sad event, and Gillard was only giving them an 

 exercise in the woods round Belvoir. However, 

 they got glued to the line of an old one, who gave 

 them an extraordinary hunt, lasting nearly two 

 hours, before he was rolled over in the cabbage 

 garden not far from the kennels. The mask was 

 one of the biggest we have ever seen, and Gillard 

 always regarded it as one of the family heirlooms 

 belonging to the pack. The other brush in the 

 case belonged to a fox killed by Blankney kennels, 

 December 15th, 1885. Winter and rough weather 



