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Colonel the Hon. H. H. Forester, Captain Blair, 

 Captain Lee Barber, and the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke." 

 A trappy fence caught Mr. Pidcock, lying in 

 great peril under his horse, who threatened any 

 moment to kick his brains out. Lord Lonsdale 

 averted a bad accident by promptly whipping his 

 own saddle off, putting it round the head of the 

 prostrate rider, whose struggling horse at once 

 cut the panels to pieces with his iron heels, show- 

 ing how near a miss for a fatal accident it had 

 been. The mended saddle Lord Lonsdale after- 

 wards sent as a present to Mr. Pidcock ! In this 

 good gallop the veteran of the hunt, Colonel the 

 Hon. H. H. Forester, was amongst those who 

 registered a fall. 



During the season two or three unlucky falls 

 laid Gillard by, and in his absence Bob Cotesworth 

 was successful in showing sport, learning much 

 that was useful to him when he subsequently 

 became huntsman to a pack of hounds in Hertford- 

 shire. 



Much more of the lion than the lamb character- 

 ised the debut of March, the scene being semi- 

 Siberian, and the atmosphere almost Arctic ; but 

 in spite of this a good forty minutes was scored in 

 the Vale of Belvoir on the 3rd. On the following 

 Saturday, when hounds met at Piper Hole and 

 snow fell at intervals, a rare good fox left Sher- 

 brooke's Covert, and raced without a check to 

 Little Belvoir in fourteen minutes, from there 

 giving a ten-mile point all down wind to Cossing- 

 ton Gorse in the Quorn country, the distance 



