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Welby, Major W. Longstaffe, Sir George Which- 

 cote, Colonel Forester, Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Mr. 

 T. Hutchinson, Mr. H. B. Minta, Mr. Cecil Rud- 

 kin, Mr. T. Hack, Mr. J. Hoyes, and the hon. sec., 

 Mr. Charles Parker. 



Except for this one sad incident, the season, 

 being wonderfully open, was excellent for sport, 

 bringing more than an average number of red- 

 letter days. All the Leicestershire packs wound 

 up their season unusually early, not one of them 

 hunting an April fox, owing to the hard season's 

 work and early spring. It would be difficult to 

 find the record of a more brilliant gallop than that 

 which fell to the lot of the Belvoir on March 25th, 

 being a run of one hour and twenty minutes from 

 Burbidge's Covert, ending with a kill in Ranksboro 

 Gorse. By all it was acknowledged a fine per- 

 formance on the part of hounds and huntsman, 

 and the field on this occasion was a most distin- 

 guished one, including Lord Edward Manners, 

 M.P., in command, Lord Lonsdale, Master of the 

 Quorn, Mr. W. Baird, Master of the Cottesmore, 

 Mr. Austin Mackenzie, Master of the Woodland 

 Pytchley, Mr. Gordon Canning, late Master of the 

 Ledbury, The Hon. Lancelot Lowther, Lord Cecil 

 Manners, Lord Robert Manners, Sir Gilbert 

 Greenall, Mr. Cyril Greenall, Captain Richard 

 Ellison, the Rev. J. P. Seabrooke, and Tom Firr. 

 This was the last occasion that Frank Gillard 

 hunted hounds in Leicestershire, 18 J couple of 

 the big dog hounds being the pack for the day. 

 " At a critical moment the young hound Tapster 



