HUNTING WITH THE COTTESMORE 211 



Coming to a good day January 8, 1906, after a 

 stop for frost, Thatcher had the dog pack out at 

 Luffenham, where a small field to meet them in- 

 cluded, besides the master, the Duchess of New- 

 castle, Lord Gerard, Colonel Brocklehurst, the 

 Marquis of Exeter, Mr. Herbert Goshng, and Mr. 

 A. L. Duncan. The first spin was with a heath 

 country fox who travelled across the Edith Weston 

 Valley to Ketton, where scent gave out in the 

 stone-pit district. A better fox was forthcoming 

 from Glaston Gorse, some two miles from Upping- 

 ham, and, taking a very wide circle, hounds ran 

 with great dash in the direction of Manton Gorse, 

 round b}^ Wing, over the Pilton lordship, nearly to 

 Lyndon. The line is a stiff one, the going heavy, 

 and the hilly nature of the country was responsible 

 for a considerable amount of grief amongst the 

 following. Coming back with a wide sweep up the 

 valley past Manton village, they raced up to their 

 fox before he could crawl into the gorse, and killed 

 him. 



Stirring sport marked 1906-7, the final season of 

 Mr. Evan Hanbury's mastership, though Arthur 

 Thatcher for many weeks was on the sick-list, and 

 hounds were hunted by the first whipper-in. Jack 

 Boore. During December a large field from Oak- 

 ham, Melton, and Market Harborough met the 

 Cottesmore at Cold Overton ; amongst those out 

 being the master, and Mrs. Evan Hanbury, Miss 

 Evan Hanbury, Victoria, Countess of Yarborough, 

 and Mr. J. Maunsell Richardson, the Duchess of 

 Newcastle, Elizabeth, Countess of Wilton, and Mr. 

 A. V. Pryor, Colonel Brocklehurst, the Duke of 

 Penaranda, Mr. W. Baird, Mrs. C. W. B. Fernie, 

 Colonel the Hon. W. and Mrs. Lawson, Miss Lawson, 

 :\Ir. Herbert Goshng, Mr. Robert Heathcote, Mary, 



