236 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



Amcotts, Mr. J. Fullerton, Mr. V. Hemery, Mr. 

 T. Robarts, the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke. Running 

 by Hose Gorse and Sherbrooke's, hounds passed to 

 the left of both coverts, and on approaching 

 Broughton Bridge got close at their fox, who made 

 a point for Holwell Mouth, but being very hard 

 pressed he turned very sharply and crossed the 

 Smite, hounds killing him close to Nether 

 Broughton. Gillard goes on to remark : " Hounds 

 deserved great praise for the way in which they 

 stuck to the line, considering scent was not very 

 good. The fox was turned first one way and then 

 another by work-people, and twice coursed by 

 sheep-dogs, so that he was a very difficult customer 

 to hunt. Time of this run, an hour and two minutes, 

 Captain 'Jim' Barry being presented with the 

 brush." 



During a run from Swarby Gorse, on the after- 

 noon of November 21st, Gillard took two heavy 

 falls, his old mare Black Bess breaking some rails, 

 coming down heavily, damaging her rider's ribs ; 

 but he pluckily stuck to his post, and saw the 

 run out until Abney Wood was reached, when 

 Kane Croft handled the pack, and he rode off to 

 be patched up by Dr. Willson of Grantham. 

 Talking of falls brings to mind a serious accident 

 which happened to a hard-riding farmer this par- 

 ticular week Mr. Cecil Rudkin. After a day on 

 the Leicestershire side, he was steering a course 

 for home some twenty miles distant, at Sapperton, 

 on the Lincolnshire side. To cut a corner he 

 jumped a few small fences, and his horse, being 



