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the hardest runner and best jumper in the pack he 

 would sweep over everything in chase ; such a 

 driver too, with beautiful nose and voice, both of 

 which he used to the best advantage." 



The two new whips this season were Bob 

 Cotesworth and Fred Powell from the north of 

 England. A whole batch of young people were 

 duly blooded by Gillard, and entered to hounds 

 during the cubbing time ; they were the Master 

 Amcotts, two little fellows wearing scarlet frocks 

 made from their father's old pink coat ; the Hon. 

 Brownlow Cecil, home for the holidays, now the 

 Marquis of Exeter ; also the daughter of Captain 

 Thorold of Boothby, Miss Marguerite, now the 

 Hon. Mrs. Maurice Gifford ; Miss K. Hodgson ; 

 and Miss Victoria Heathcote, the youngest of a 

 sporting quintette of sisters who all hunted together 

 from Newton Hall. 



On December 9th a large field assembled at 

 Croxton Park to welcome H.R.H. the Princess 

 Beatrice of Battenberg, who drove in an open 

 carriage with the Duchess of Rutland, and Gillard, 

 mounted on old Farewell, had the pleasure of point- 

 ing out the hounds to her. 



During the season sport was stopped twenty- 

 four days for frost and death, another link being 

 severed with the past when Sir Thomas Whichcote, 

 the seventh baronet and mighty hunter, went to 

 his long rest The untimely death, also, of the 

 Duke of Clarence and Avondale cast a gloom over 

 the season, for the sight of a Leicestershire field of 

 some three hundred horsemen all clad in black 



