.% Random RecoIvI^ections of the 



fifty years — Himself at their head for the last 

 twenty — and that the high state of perfection 

 with which they were regarded was due in a 

 great measure to the scientific attainments, 

 as well in the kennel as the field, of the 

 huntsmen — of such men as Newman, Shaw, 

 Goosey, Goodall, Cooper and Gillard. He 

 expressed the gratification it afforded him to 

 provide sport for the community, and acknow- 

 ledged the liberality of non-hunting farmers 

 in preserving foxes, and caring nothing 

 about damages to crops or fences, and sat 

 down amidst tremendous cheering with the 

 <:ompany echoing his sentiments, that " Long 

 may hunting flourish, and the woods of Bel voir 

 resound with the music of fox hounds." The 

 formal part of the proceedings over, the 

 company sat down to a sumptuous luncheon 

 provided for over three hundred, to which, as 

 many had had a twenty miles ride, it will 

 be rightly inferred that ample justice was 

 accorded. 



By two o'clock Frank Gillard, the huntsman, 

 mounted on a grey steeplechase horse, " The 

 Sluggard," surrounded by the hounds and his 



