CHAPTER XVII 



SEASONS 1891-92 AND 1892-93 



Reduced to a Four-day-a-week Pack An exceptionally good Lot of 

 young Hounds by Belvoir Pirate and Rufford Dancer Lord 

 Willoughby de Brooke's opinion of Fallible Boys and Girls 

 entered to Hounds Visit of H.R.H. Princess Beatrice of Batten- 

 berg Death of Sir Thomas Whichcote and Mourning for H.R.H. 

 the Duke of Clarence A Burst from Coston Covert Old Farewell 

 gives Frank a Fall Lord Lonsdale saves Mr. Pidcock's Life 

 Father O'Flynn,the Grand National Steeplechase Winner Vigilant 

 wins a Chase for Gillard at Melton Funeral of Mr. J. Nicholas 

 Charlton The young Hound Tapster and his End Good Gallops 

 in November, one voted the best seen in three years A Record 

 Stop for Frost A Hunt in Freeby Church for a Fox A Nine-Mile 

 Point in the Fog from Aslackby to Weaver's Lodge A Race from 

 Staunton Thorns to Normanton Covert The best Run Gillard ever 

 saw The Rain Register in a dry March Lenton Brook Two 

 Runs into Haconby Fen 1865 and 1893. 



the regret of 

 all sportsmen, the 

 noble master of 

 the Belvoir found it 

 necessary to hunt his 

 hounds four instead of 

 five days a week. As 

 the saying is, " Needs must when the devil drives " ; 

 and the devils to drive this stage were the de- 



THE HUNT SPECIAL. 



