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the cool determination and unshaken nerve that 

 distinofuished him. In the course of a run Mr 

 Tailby put his horse at a gate between Skeffington 

 and Loddington, and the horse, catching the top 

 rail between his knees, turned right over and gave 

 his rider a tremendous fall. Nothing beyond a 

 severe shaking being the result, Mr Tailby was 

 soon back in the saddle and going again, and 

 some ten minutes later, hounds having turned 

 and come back the same line, he put his horse 

 a second time at the gate, and this time got 

 over safely. 



With the Belvoir country Frank Gillard's name 

 must always be associated, and it is a curious fact 

 that Gillard began his first cub-hunting season as 

 huntsman to these hounds on foot. The season 

 was so dry and the ground in consequence so 

 cracked by the action of the sun that it was im- 

 possible to ride. Stress of weather of another 

 kind, high winds being in the ascendant, led to a 

 curious innovation on the ordinary hunting dress 

 by the Marquis of Tweeddale, who was determined 

 not to have his way across country hampered by 

 a fly-away head-gear. He therefore adopted the 

 expedient of having broad ribbon strings attached 

 to either side of his hat, and these he tied securely 

 in a bow under the chin. The result I never saw, 

 but it must have been sufficiently funny, and 

 was a matter of talk in the Belvoir country at 

 the time, though for this Lord Tweeddale cared 

 not a jot. 



