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apprenticeship Tricks of boyhood A quid pro quo Mr. 

 Hand's gruel plan Mr. Gilmour and Captain Ross's match 

 Coverside pleasantries Biding old horses The effects of 

 larking Ealph Holding, the horse-tamer Burley Park 

 The tale of Gibbet Gorse Daniel Lambert and Wilcox 

 Parson Harvey Horse taming drugs The first breaking 

 effort Head-groom days at Sir Gilbert's Dick as an agri- 

 culturist Mode of breaking How to put him on the bit- 

 The Christian bridle-bit An interview with royalty A 

 triumph of patience Hunter training Teaching to leap 

 Sir R. Sutton's Cannon Ball Riding- school practice Ruf- 

 ford to wit Climbing Burrow Hill A disaster The Grove 

 and Rufford cracks . . . . . .23 



KJGDI TO! TlrTOIO) The road to Belvoir The Freeby 

 Wood burst A rare trio The Sproxton Thorns flyer 

 Belvoir Belvoir visitors The Belvoir huntsmen The 

 Marquis of Hastings Will Head in the oak tree Shawe, the 

 huntsman Lord Forester and Mr. Grant Belvoir records 



Cribb v. Molyineux Captain Barclay and The Chicken 



Old short odds" Mr. Assheton Smith Fistiana Mr. 

 Smith's great hunters His style of riding at fences His 

 desperate leaps His Lantern family His style of hunting 



Hunting science Leicestershire foxes Mr. Osbaldeston 



Sebright and Dick Burton How they lost a fox Mr. 

 Tom Edge Lord Plymouth's cracks Mr. Gurney taking 

 the water Mr. Smith's last day in Leicestershire His 

 Belvoir day Sir Harry Goodricke His crack hunters 

 His mastership Goodricke's Gorse Sir Harrv's nerve 

 Meltoniana The gentleman with the pistols Sir Harry's 

 illness and death . 46 



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T! M ES A retrospect The old Pytchley Club 



days Dick Knight Lord Spencer's successors Charles 

 King Sport with Lord Althorp The Club at Pytchley 

 A few cracks of the hunt Captain Jones and his pilot- 

 Lucas's barn Dick Gurney's views of the Meltonians The 

 Pytchley Brummell The end of the Old Club Recollec- 

 tions of the New Forest Mr. Boscawen and Admiral Cod- 

 rington Billy Butler the parson A word on scent- 

 Selection of stallion hounds The chase of yore . . 71 



CHAPTER III. 



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Shadows of the past The Warren Hill in '89 Fea- 

 tures of the new era The Sancho v. Pavilion match at 



