CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PAGE 



Mr. F. Cotton — His Walk to Perthshire — His Match Avith the Marquis 

 of Queensberry — Merryman — Great Brailsford Run — Major F. W. 

 Peacock— End of the Season 1882-1883 92 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Some Men and Other Things — " Bill " Power — Deaths of Lord Vernon 



and ]Mr. Bass — Reminiscences of Forty Years with the Meynell . . 108 



CHAPTER IX. 



Sport in the Eighties — Captain Holland — Good Run from Shirley Park 

 —Mr. E. A. J. Maynard — Good Day from Walton — The Green 

 Covert at Egginton — Mr. Chandos-Pole's Private Pack — Mr. 

 Hamar Bass becomes Joint-Master . . . . . . . . 120 



CHAPTER X. 



The Joint-Mastership of the "Squire" and BIr. Hamar Bass, M.P. — 

 G. S. L. on the Hounds — Wonderful Run of Five Hours — Death 

 of the Third Lord Bagot 135 



CHAPTER XI. 



The "Squire's" Last Season — Two Canards — Wonderful Run from 

 Snelston — Resignation of the " Squire " — Report of the Special 

 Committee ,. .. .. .. .. .. .. 142 



CHAPTER XII. 



Mr. Hamar Bass, M.F.H., M.P.— Death of Mr. R. Sale— A Good 

 Opening Day — Three Good Gallops — A Derbyshire Scurry — The 

 Annual Meeting — Derbyshire Hunting Song . . . . . . 153 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Rolleston — The Great Frost — End of the Season — Mr. H . S . Charrington 169 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Foston — Mr. Gerald Duncombe — Captain Dugdale — Mr. Frank Cooper 176 



CHAPTER XV. 



Loxley — The Fox crosses the Trent to Donington Park — Mr. Frank 



Newton — Election of the Deputy-Master — Mr. F. A. Brace .. 185 



