1878] THE OPENING DAY. 21 



The night before, at the Hunt Ball, there were 

 present, besides Lord Harrington's party, Earls Ferrers 

 and Loudoun, Lord Waterpark, M.F.H., Lord and Lady 

 Petersham, Lady Skelmersdale, Sir Henry and Lady Wil- 

 mot, Captain and Lady Florence Duncombe, Lady Chet- 

 wode, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Clowes, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Curtis, the Misses Thornewill, Mr. M. A. Bass, M.P., Mr. 

 and Mrs. F. Cotton, Mr. S. C. Allsopp, M.P., Mr. and 

 Mrs. F. Kendall, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Worthington, Mr. 

 and Mrs. Broadley Smith, and many others. 



On Friday night there was a grand ball at Elvaston. 



This is, however, rather putting the cart before the 

 horse. 



The hounds began cub-hunting, in Bagot's Woods, on 

 August 26th, and they killed a cub, or a brace, every 

 time they went out for the first four mornings, bring- 

 ing sixteen brace to hand altogether. 



On the opening day, at Sudbury, on November 4th, 

 there were present Lord Waterpark, M.F.H., Captain 

 Duncombe (of Calwich Abbey), Lord and Lady Parker 

 (of Field House, Marchington), Mr. Clowes (of Norbury), 

 Lady Gwendolin Chaplin, Mr. R. W. Chandos-Pole, 

 Colonel and the Misses FitzHerbert, Mr. and Mrs. Jervis- 

 Smith (of Clifton Hall), Mrs. Frank (of Ashbourne Hall), 

 the Hon. Mrs. Col vile, Miss Cumming, Miss 0. Thorne- 

 will, Messrs. Broadley Smith, A. W. Lyon, T. P. Kempson, 

 S. C. Allsopp, M. T. Bass, M.P., Thomas and John Smith, 

 W. and H. Boden, R. and F. T. Feilden, F. Cotton and 

 Mrs. Cotton, G. Meynell, A. H. Colvile, A. 0. Worthing- 

 ton, B. H. Buxton, J. and C. Cumming, Tonman Mosley, 

 Firman, F. S. Kendall, Colonel James Cavendish, Captains 

 A. F. Dawson (Barrow Hill), Goodwin, Fowler-Butler, 

 Lord Bagot, Major Fleming, Messrs. John Chandos-Pole 

 Charles Forster, Alexander, Crossman, Fox (Elmhurst), 

 Hodgson (Tixall), and old Tom Leedham. 



Charles Hawkes having gone to Lord Zetland, Walter 

 Scorey succeeded him as second whipper-in, and a very 

 good one he made. 



