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who was secured by "Gentleman" Cox below, 

 carried out into the open black as a sweep, given a 

 start, but speedily rolled over. The evening fox 

 from Sapperton Wood gave a charming hunting run 

 over a grand country to Grimsthorpe, where he 

 committedfelo-de-se down a well. This was a really 

 good point of one hour and ten minutes, being nearly 

 a straight line on the map. It was 5.30 before the 

 run ended, and hounds did not reach kennels that 

 night until 10 P.M. 



A special village meet for Kirkby Underwood was 

 arranged, which drew all the natives out of the 

 fens as spectators. " A wretched day : scarcity of 

 foxes, absence of scent, and fourteen perambulators 

 counted at covert side," remarked Gillard. 



During March two nice days' sport worthy of 

 mention resulted, a gallop of thirty-five minutes 

 from Melton Spinney ending with a kill at Sysonby ; 

 and a merry thirty-five minutes' spin with a Stubton 

 fox. 



At the end of the season Kane Croft left to go 

 as huntsman to the Isle of Wight foxhounds, and 

 Frank Gillard, junior, went as huntsman to a pack 

 in Pennsylvania, taking with him a large draft of 

 Belvoir hounds. 



The winner of the Melton Town Plate this 

 season was found in Frank Gillard's good-looking 

 bay horse Gunby, son of the Cottesmore Hunt horse 

 Muleteer. Quite an ovation was given Frank when 

 the horse returned to weigh in, and he credited his 

 owner with three chases before being sold to Mr. 

 Flowers. Subsequently he was sent up to Tatter- 



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