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from Coston Bassett ; Mr. Marriott, Mr. Henry Smith, 

 also the Quorn hunt." The first whipper-in to the 

 Belvoir was Arthur Wilson, who afterwards went 

 huntsman to the York and Ainsty hounds. 



About this period in history there arrived at 

 Melton a hard-riding trio of friends, the late Captain 

 Tom Boyce, i6th Lancers, the late Captain Parke 

 Yates, many years master of the Cheshire, and 

 Captain Wynne Griffith, Royal Dragoons. For 

 several seasons they hunted from Melton with all 

 three of the Leicestershire packs ; and it is a case 

 in point of hunting history repeating itself, for 

 to-day Sir Gilbert Greenall, a nephew of Captain 

 Parke Yates, is master of the Belvoir, married to 

 the daughter of Captain Wynne Griffith. 



Part IL — The Run of 1908 



" A stranger, a traveller, stout, gallant, and shy, 

 With his earths six miles off, and those earths in his eye." 



A halo of romance surrounds the doings of the past, 

 the crust of time adding a glamour to the stirring 

 story associated with so many celebrities of the 

 chase, who played their part following the Belvoir 

 and the Quorn in the eighties. If this is true of 

 the past, then we may claim that there is no page 

 in hunting history more full of interest than the 

 story of to-day, when in the enjoyment of health 

 and vigour we take our part in the great drama of 

 the chase. Certainly, after a lapse of five-and-twenty 

 seasons, when the Belvoir and Quorn packs again 

 joined forces in a hunt, killing their fox together, 

 on the memorable Saturday, November 14, 1908, 

 there was no lack of enthusiasm amongst the follow- 

 ing who rode this history-making gallop. 



