CHAPTER X. 



FRANK BEERS' DIARIES. 



Through the kindness of Mrs. Beers, and her 

 family, I am enabled to offer to the public some 

 extracts from the diaries of the late Frank Beers, 

 which cover a period of twenty years, from 1870 

 to i8qo. All who read them will, I have no 

 doubt, express their surprise that so much sport 

 could be derived from a country containing so 

 small an area. I can vouch for the truth of it all, 

 the writer and producer of the sport described, 

 being a very accurate man ; and the greater 

 portion of it came under my own observation. 



1870-71. 



1870. Aug. 2gth. — The Duke of Grafton's hounds 

 commenced cubhunting at Waterslade. Hunted 36 

 days, killed 39 foxes. 



" Nov. 9th. — Bucknells. Found, and went away to 

 Lord Southampton's farm, short back to Silverstone 

 Windmill, to the village, and to the corner of Seven 



