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feeding are bound to bring about troubles in later 

 years. Ideas have altered since the days of Anthony 

 Trollope, when Spartan fare was considered suffi- 

 cient out hunting, washed down by a concoction of 

 ''vinegar and water." A good lunch and a second 

 horse at one o'clock are not the worst part of twen- 

 tieth-century hunting ! Tom Firr, one of the most 



The Earl of Lonsdale. 



abstemious, preferred claret to anything else ; and 

 Frank Gillard was another who went for the same 

 wine or tea, the late Sir Thomas Whichcote sending 

 the Belvoir huntsmen many a dozen of claret. For 

 over a quarter of a century these two famous hunts- 

 men rode with unimpaired nerve in front of Leices- 

 tershire fields, which every season are reinforced 

 with young blood full of ride ! 



An account of Kirby Gate day without a list 

 of some who were there would be incomplete, 

 so just an example : *' The Lad " — Colonel the Hon. 



