CHAPTER XIV 



SEASONS 1885-86 AND 1886-87 



Six Masters of Hounds out Cub-hunting Mr. Brockton of Farndon 

 The big Day of the Season ending at Blankney Good Hound 

 Work A Day with Lord Lonsdale's Hounds at Blankney Blood- 

 ing Lord William Manners Mr. Basil Cochrane The hardest Day 

 of the Season with many Leicestershire Foxes Home on Foot, 

 all the Horses beat Three of the Hunt Horses Frank Beers the 

 Grafton Huntsman A note about the Brocklesby Kennel Several 

 good Days A Run and Kill by the Forty-Foot Drain A Wedding 

 Special saves the Pack from Destruction A good March Gallop 

 and Kill in an Ash Tree A Note of Music in Frank's Diary The 

 Fowl-House Door opens to the Name of the Duke. 



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THE STACKER'S ART. 



O less than six masters 

 of hounds came to 

 look at us one morn- 

 ing during the cubbing 

 season when we met at Crox- 

 ton Park. They were Mr. 

 Lort Phillips from the North 

 Warwickshire, Mr. Chandos 

 Pole from the Meynell, Mr. 

 W. E. Wemyss from the Bur- 

 ton, Mr. Coupland from the 

 Quorn, Lord Middleton from 

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