PREFACE 



Many of these chapters have been prompted by 

 kind friends and companions of the chase, to whom 

 I am indebted for instructive hours spent with 

 hounds. That the experiences of sport enjoyed with 

 the Belvoir and many other packs, now appear as 

 a volume, is due to the fact that it has been my 

 privilege to chronicle the doings of the chase for 

 the sporting-press, during many seasons hunting. 

 My best thanks, for courtesy received from kindly 

 editors, to reproduce many a story and picture 

 of sport, I gratefully subscribe to the Field, Land 

 and Water, The County Gentleman, Graphic, Daily 

 Graphic, Vanity Fair, Sporting Pictorial, Crown, 

 Grantham Joitrnal, Peterborough Advertiser, Sports- 

 man, Baily's Magazine, and Fores Magazine. 



Two of the illustrations from the pencil of my 

 father, the late " Cuthbert Bede," are of historical 

 interest ; for many made at the same period have 

 been acquired by collectors. To my brother, the 

 Rev. H. W. Bradley, vicar of Wrenbury, Cheshire — 

 ex- whipper-in of beagles, and follower of the Belvoir 

 and Cheshire whenever a horse is available — I am 

 indebted for valuable help, when editing this volume. 

 Lastly, I realise that Captain Pennell Elmhirst, 

 "Brooksby" of the Field, for forty seasons the 

 acknowledged chief of hunting correspondents, has 



