130 GOOD SPORT 



giving a summary of what has happened, in the 

 shortest time imaginable. 



Frank Gillard's letter is headed with a woodcut 

 portrait of a hound called Fallible ('73), a son of 

 Milton Furrier and Prophetess, a daughter of Rally- 

 wood. He showed true foxhound style in every line, 

 and the late Lord Willoughby de Broke, in a letter 

 to Gillard dated from the Warwickshire kennels, 

 March 20, 1888, said, " I think Fallible the best dog 

 in England, and I have been to nearly every kennel. 

 He is far superior to Milton Spanker. I am in a posi- 

 tion of one, as it were forming a pack. I find I can 

 get quality nowhere except from you and Brock- 

 lesby." Others who subscribed to Fallible's worth 

 were the Duke of Grafton, who sent Frank Beers to 

 try and buy him, the price mentioned being £500. 

 Old George Carter, when he went to look at Belvoir 

 Fallible, the son of his champion dog Milton Furrier, 

 said, " If you will let me have the young dog, I will 

 walk all the way back to Peterborough with him. 

 I won't risk taking him by train." Of Fallible his 

 huntsman used to say, that he was one of the best 

 of three hounds he ever saw on the line of a fox, 

 the other two being Weathergage and Gambler. 

 The celebrated " Gillard compound for distemper," 

 which is in such demand to-day, has Fallible's head 

 stamped upon it. 



In the letter dated from Belvoir Kennels, Gran- 

 tham, Monday evening, December 22, 1884, Gillard 

 begins : " My Lord Duke, your Grace this morning 

 was good enough to wish w^e might have good sport, 

 and it is with great pleasure I now make an attempt 

 to write an account of an extraordinary good hunting 

 run." We may here explain that before hunting 

 Gillard more often than not used to ride a hack up 

 to the Castle to interview the ducal master in bed, 



