1 82 Frank Beers' Diaries. [1887-88 



and myself. I had my third horse ; one of the hardest 

 days I ever saw for hounds and horses. Hounds were 

 running their hardest nearly the whole day ; all went 

 home with their sterns up, and fed well. I rode Prince 

 Charlie, Miriam, and Paragon. 22 couple of bitches. 



" March 4th. — Adstone. Found in Canons Ashby 

 Gorse ; away to the Ponds, over the hill, and lost him 

 on Woodford Hill. Found again in Ashby Ponds, killed 

 one, and away with another to ground just under Eydon, 

 in a drain under the East and West Railway. Found 

 next in Plumpton Wood, over the Lane, and down for 

 Canons Ashby ; I put my horse Thistle at a very wide 

 place, when a lady and gentleman crossed me, and my 

 good horse was put out of his stride, so jumped short, 

 fell backwards, and broke his back. Thistle was one of 

 the very best hunters I ever rode. The only horse I 

 ever had an accident with, after hunting hounds foF 

 twenty-five years. 



1887-88. 



1887. — Began cub-hunting on Monday, August 29th. 

 Hunted twenty-nine mornings, killed forty-four foxes. 



"Oct. 19th. — Easton Neston at 11.30. His Royal 

 Highness the Prince of Wales, staying with Sir Thomas 

 Hesketh for the week, hunted with the Grafton. Drew 

 Water Hall, Rifle-Butt Spinney, blank. Found in 

 Nun Wood ; went away to Shutlanger and Stoke 

 Bruerne, and ran into the fox one field from Plane 

 Woods. Sir Thomas Hesketh's children were out ; one 

 had the head, the other the brush (both blooded). Drew 

 Stoke Park, Heathencote, Burcote Wood, Sholebrook, 

 all blank. Found in the forest, hunted till dark." 



Nov. 7th. — Regular hunting began. 



'' Nov. 1 2th. — Bozenham Mill. Found several foxes 



