CHAPTER VIII 



TWO GOOD RUNS WITH SIR GILBERT GREENALL AND 

 THE BELVOIR HOUNDS 



The hunting community — A meet at Rippingale, February 1906 — Mr 

 Franks entertains the field — The field out — Dunsby Wood and Judge 

 Lawrence — Lost in Bourne Wood — A good fox started at Kirkby 

 Underwood — By Irnham to Bitchfield — The leaders of the Chase — 

 Sir Gilbert Greenall views away from Ingoldsby Wood — The kill by 

 Boothby — A pad only for Lady Greenall's boys — A meet at Folking- 

 ham, March 1906 — Mrs Cuthbert Bradley entertains the field — A 

 good start from Heathcotes New Covert — Lots of grief in the journey 

 to Keisby — A riding field — Sir Gilbert Greenall sets them right — 

 Grief at the brook by Lenton — Away from Boothby big wood to a 

 kill by Bassingthorpe — A brush for Mons. Auriol and the mask for 

 Mr Thomas A. R. Heathcote. 



" It is no easy matter^ without flying horse, 

 To get to the head of that fast Belvoir pack 

 And stop it from running the unbeaten fox, 

 When the pastures are holding and bullfinches black. 

 A game, honest worker can't pick his own line — 

 He must go where hounds go, whether huntsman or whipper ; 

 And both must be there, riding each horse the same, 

 Taking rough with the smooth, when they're out with the Belvoir. 

 Ben Capell and Hewitt are unknown to complain 

 Of their horses so clever and sound as a bell. 

 What with Desborough, Zephyr, Jack, and Black-cap, 

 Just the stamp that can carry those servants right well." 



— George A. Fothergill in Baily's Magazine, 1908. 



From Kirkby to a Kill at Boothby, with the 

 Belvoir. February 23, 1906 



The most enjoyable way of getting to know a hunting 

 community is to have a day's sport with them, so 

 in memory we will ride a couple of good runs with 

 the Belvoir over again. Both occasions happen to 

 be on the Lincolnshire side of the countrv, fair 



