CHAPTER XV 



SEASONS 1887-88 AND 1888-89 



Gillard's Family Frank Gillard, junior, joins the Hunt Staff A good 

 Run from Sapperton Wood ; Mr. John Gubbins presented with the 

 Brush Mr. Cecil Rudkin goes hard Hunting till Dark The 

 Belvoir and Cottesmore Hounds come together in the Field The 

 Hound Cottesmore Prodigal The Kennels to which Frank went 

 for Blood Old Sir Thomas Whichcote's Opinion of the Day, and 

 his Letter The late Duke of Clarence Death of Mrs. Willson of 

 Rauceby Dangers of a Swallow-Hole Mr. Otho Paget jumps 

 locked Railway Gates Death of the Master, the Sixth Duke 

 of Rutland Succession of the Seventh Duke of Rutland Stud 

 Hounds, the Entry and Nominal Good Hound Day by Culver- 

 thorpe Aswarby Foxes An Accident to the Hound Van Mr. 

 Jolland wins a Fen-Land Fox's Brush Count Zhrowski Lost 

 Hounds finding their Way back Ash Wednesday drops out of 

 the Fixtures Mr. Richard Fenwick presented with a Brush 

 A Lady of eighty-six presented with her first Brush Captain 



Pennell Elmhirst's Tribute to 

 Gillard's Vigour and Keenness 

 at the end of his nineteenth 

 season Huntsman. 



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bred in 

 the bone 

 comes out in the 

 flesh," and, as might 



GORDON, BV GAMBLER, 1885 ~ be CXpCCtcd, the 



girls and boys of Frank Gillard's numerous 



