CHAPTER XI 



TWO FOX-UP-A-CHIMNEY HUNTS WITH THE BELVOIR, 



1 89 1 AND 19 10 



Part I 

 Aswarby Park and Sir Thomas Whichcote — Frank Gillard and the Belvoir 

 dog-hounds, 1 891— The Lincolnshire field out— The twenty minutes 

 burst from Burton Plantations to Silk Willoughby — Fox up the 

 chimney after jumping over the baby — Secured and turned down — 

 The mask in evidence to-day — A ten mile point from Newton Wood — 

 A small field ride a straight run over a fine country to Grimsthorpe 

 Park— :Mark to ground at dark — Home by lantern hght to Belvoir 

 kennels, 9.30. 



Part II 



Deep gomg in Leicestershire— The Belvoir Vale in March— A large field out 

 at Piper Hole Dam— Preliminary Hunting— A flyer from Scalford to 

 Waltham— On the roof of the George and Dragon— The hunt down the 

 chimney — Relics of old Will Goodall — The vixen who saved her brush 

 — The afternoon hunt from Melton Spinney — A cracker to Harby 

 Hills, a kill and all the horses beat. 



Part I. — A Lincolnshire Chimney-climbing 

 Fox, February 1891 



" Wide Lincolnshire Heath may have sportsmen galore, 

 And so may the pinewoods of Stapleford Moor ; 

 On the green sward at Belton the marks of the feet 

 May lie thick where the hunters have paced at the ' meet ' ; 

 From Reeve's gorse, or Wellingore, Reynard may break, 

 And boldly his line through a stiff country take, 

 While the hounds make sweet music and pick out the scent. 

 And the fugitives follow with murd'rous intent ; 

 And well may keen sportsmen contend for the lead. 

 Until the sly rogue in the open shall bleed." 



— Belvoir Hunt Song, 1870. 



The Story of a good run, like wane of the right 

 vintage, gains in potency and flavour with the crust 

 of time, and to this we owe much of the charm 

 attached to the sport of fox-hunting, because it is 



