TWO GOOD DAYS IN i^ 



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We all know the pleasures of anticipation, with 

 the corresponding disappointment in realisation, 

 and when we arrange our plans for a red-letter 

 day, fickle fortune is sure to upset the best of them. 

 But so pleased were the Cottesmore followers 

 with the day's sport in the Belvoir country, 

 which was fairly pronounced equal to anything 

 that Leicestershire could offer, that a fortnight 

 later they chartered a special train, and with men, 

 horses, and hounds came again to Corby. Of for- 

 tune's cap the Cottesmore must have been the very 

 button, for that jade decreed that plans should be 

 realised, and a run put on record that eclipsed the 

 gallop of the previous fortnight. The field repre- 

 senting the Cottesmore included Mr. W. Baird, the 

 master, on a grey ; Gillson, on a bay ; and his first 

 whipper-in, George Jull, who turned hounds to him 

 for ten seasons, and then went huntsman to a north- 

 country pack ; Mrs. Baird, the Earl of Ancaster, 

 Lord Willoughby de Eresby, M.P., Lord Edward 



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Spencer Churchill, brother 

 to Lord Randolph Churchill, 

 Captain and Mrs. Blair, Mrs. 

 Cecil Chaplin, Mr. Herbert 

 Gosling, Mr. Jackson, Mr. 

 Cecil Noel, Mr. Gilbert Pea- 

 cock, Major Henry Wickham, 

 the then reigning master of 

 the Fitzwilliam ; Mr. Joplin, 

 Mr. Henry Hunt, Mr. George 

 Hunt, and the Rev. J. Mire- 

 house. The Belvoir division 

 included Sir Hugh Cholmeley, Major W. Longstaffe, 

 Major Fritz Amxotts, Mr. Ernest ChapUn, Mr. 

 Thomas Heathcote, Mr. Edgar Lubbock, Mr. T. 

 Robarts. Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, Mr. E. Parker, 



Restful. 



