CHAPTER IX 



TWO BELVOIR AND QUORN JOINT RUNS 

 1884 AND 1908 



Part I 



Saturday the great hunting day in Leicestershire — The best source of 

 information — Belvoir and Quorn run of 1878 from Frank Gillard's 

 diary — Belvoir and Quorn run of 1867 from Mr. John Welby's 

 diary — The trophy of the great Belvoir Quorn gallop — Frank 

 Gillard's letters descriptive of hunting — Admirers of Belvoir 

 Fallible, 1873 — The huntsman's letter to the ducal master — The 

 geography of the great hunt — Frank Gillard's narrative of the run 

 — Alfred Earp gives Tom Firr's version of the story— The run, 

 time, distance, and finish — The obsequies performed, and the 

 packs divided — The Rev. J, P. Seabrooke's comment on the run — 

 Some of those who saw the run— Two generations of Leicestershire 

 leaders. 



Part II 



The past compared with the present — The Belvoir Saturdays in the Vale 

 — Lady Greenall — The Belvoir field out, Nov. 14, 1908 — The Belvoir 

 pack for the day — Steady hunting with the Belvoir in the morning 

 — The Quorn and Captain Frank Forester — The Quorn field out, 

 Nov. 14, 1908 — The Quorn pack — George Leaf — Will Weston and 

 Blankney memories — The Quorn hunt in the morning — The two 

 packs join in Sherbrooke's covert — Mr. "Ned" Griffith — A fox 

 away — Ben Capell and George Leaf, their horses described — The 

 Belvoir and Quorn whippers-in — The run — What " Q " of the Field 

 said — What " Tally-ho " said — What Captain Forester said — Pro- 

 minent hounds — Belvoir Ragman — The Belvoir field-master views 

 the fox over the railway embankment — The Rev. J. P. Seabrooke's 

 opinion on hunters — ^Mr. Henry Cholmondeley out on the right day 

 — Captain Holloway Steeds— The scene near Old Dalby— The hard 

 riders — Near the finish — Capell's whoo-whoop — Lady Greenall 

 presented with the brush — Which fox was it? Mr. A. V. Prior's 

 opinion — Mr. Otho Paget's opinion — Captain Forestei''s opinion 

 — Lady Greenall decisive I — Dividing the packs — Past, present, 



and future. 



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