CHAPTER III 



WITH FRANK GILLARD ON A LENTON BROOK DAY. 

 P^ORTY MINUTES AND A KILL 



The influence of a good day's sport — The Folkingham fixture revived — 

 Lord Edward Manners — The field out with the Belvoir — The 

 Folkingham country — Harry Maiden— The morning hunt from 

 Heathcote's new covert — Again from Folkingham little gorse— 

 A cracker from Sapperton Wood — The line of grass by Lenton — 

 Lenton Brook— What Will Goodall said about it— Mr. F. A. 

 Soames leads the way — Mr. Edgar Lubbock's record at the brook 

 ^Lord Willoughby de Eresby — The Hon. Claude Willoughby de 

 Eresby — Mr. T. A. Rudkin and his medicine bottles — The kill by 

 Ingoldsby — Those up at the kill, and presentation of the brush, 

 mask, and pads — Back to kennels in the dark — Gillard's untirable 

 enthusiasm — A fox-hunting sermon from the Folkingham vicar. 



"You gallantly hit off your fox. 

 And over those Sapperton fields, 

 Full many were in the wrong box. 



My ardour exceeded all bounds. 



At Haceby I counted but six ; 

 So to keep him alongside the hounds, 



I treated my nag to some kicks. 



No ! Walcot bold Reynard refuses, 

 And Folkingham gorse he disdains ; 



The Aswarby coverts he chooses — 

 Look out for the Aswarby drains ! " 



— Lays of the Belvoir Hunt. 



There is no doubt about the joy of a good day's 

 sport, for its memory can cheer the heart and keep 

 us warm many a long year afterwards. The beau- 

 tiful Belvoir have put many a fine performance to 

 their credit, but the events of Friday, November 23, 

 1894, will never be forgotten by those who were 

 lucky enough to participate in the stirring after- 

 noon gallop of forty minutes from Sapperton Wood 



