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farmers and their sons, so that there was everything 

 to further sport and good feehng. The command 

 was taken by Lord Edward Manners, second son 

 of the seventh Duke of Rutland, who for several 

 years made an excellent field-master. The Squire 

 of Aswarby — owing to gout and anno domini — was 

 on wheels, viewing our performance across country 

 through a pair of field glasses, keen to hear all 

 about it afterwards. 



Those out included Major W. Longstaffe, Mr John 

 Earle Welby, Mr and Mrs Edgar Lubbock, Major 

 and Mrs Fritz Amcotts, Colonel Mildmay Willson, 

 Miss Edith and Laura Willson, Mr Thomas A. R. 

 Heathcote, Misses Lucy, Gertrude, Maud, and Emily 

 Heathcote, Colonel G. Parker and Miss Grace 

 Parker, Mr Charles Parker, Mr T. Roberts, Mr 

 Wentworth Reeves, Mr J. Fullerton, Mons. Roy, 

 Mons. Coutourie, the Countess de Claremont, Captain 

 Lathom Cox, Mr Montague Thorold, Mr James 

 Hutchinson, Major Sands, Mr Arthur Hutchinson, 

 the Hon. Bernard Petre, the Rev. George Carter, 

 Mr F. Worsley, Mr C. Hodgson, Mr Vincent Hemery, 

 Mr and Miss Cambell Dick, Mr and Mrs C. J. Phillips, 

 Captain J. Rennie, Mr W. Hornsby, Mr H. Smith, 

 Mr H. M. Escritt, Major A. de Burton, Mr James 

 Rudkin, Mr James Hoyes, Mr Cecil Rudkin, Mr 

 Austin Pick, Mr Tom Casswell, Mr J. Tomlinson, 

 Mr J. Grummitt, Mr J. Shepperdson, Mr R. Stock- 

 dale, Mr Harvey, Mr F. Ward, Mr F. Godson, Mr 

 John Nickolls, Mr J. Bailey, Mr Hedworth, Mr 

 Constable, Mr Tom Rudkin, and Mr Ben Baxter, the 

 shoeing smith who used to ride hard, with imple- 

 ments of his calling attached to the saddle in readi- 

 ness for any emergency. 



To give the summary of a red letter day's sport, 

 hounds had a fast twenty minutes in the morning. 



