NOTES FROM THE BELVOIR KENNEL 261 



One of' the famous huntsmen, Thomas Goosey, 

 when he retired from active hfe, spent the rest of 

 his days in a cottage at Woolsthorpe. There was 

 a garden at the back, looking towards the green hill 

 which sloped up from the village of Woolsthorpe 

 to Belvoir. In the early summer mornings his not 

 less famous successor, Will Goodall, used to bring 

 the hounds for exercise, by the garden gate. The 

 old gentleman, seated in his chair, took his hat off, 

 and remained uncovered until they had passed out 

 of sight. That, he thought, was a pretty story, and 

 he was not altogether indisposed to think that 

 perhaps there might be some enthusiastic sports- 

 man in that company, and some admirable, perhaps 

 even critical, judges of hounds who when they met 

 that pack might feel inclined to take their hats off, 

 beheving that when they saw them, they repre- 

 sented about as good a type of that noble animal 

 the EngUsh foxhound as they were likely to see in 

 the course of their natural hves." 



In 1900 the Belvoir Hunt presented Sir Gilbert 

 Greenall with two massive silver cups on the occa- 

 sion of his marriage with Miss Frances Griffith, 

 daughter of Captain Wynne Griffith, of Tarporley, 

 Cheshire. Lady Greenall at once proved herself to 

 be an ideal wife for the master of the premier pack— 

 a very finished rider, hke her father, able to take 

 her position at the head of a Leicestershire field, 

 and assume command in her husband's absence. A 

 further prize was added by Lady Greenall to the 

 substantial Hst presented by the master each year, 

 going to the walker of the puppy sent into kennel 

 in the best condition. 



Tom Firr's last pubhc appearance in Leicester- 

 shire was judging the j^oung entry at Belvoir, 

 August 1902. In a characteristic speech at the 



