THE HISTORY OF THE BEL VOIR HUNT 



railway then interposed to endanger the life of the hounds 

 or to stop the progress of the sportsmen. From Stapleford 

 they ran right on past Whissendine, and crossed the Melton 

 and Oakham road near Alcock's Lodge, then ran to Cold 

 Overton (now the hunting box of Lord Manners), and from 

 there into Orton Park Wood. As they came this distance in 

 fifty minutes, assuming the time to be accurate, the pace 

 must have been tremendous. From Orton Park Wood they 



14, Will Goodall, Whip, 13. Mr. Goosev. 15. J. Robinson, First Whip, afterwards 

 afterwards Huntsman. Kennel Huntsman to Sir Richard 



Sutton, Bart. 



g. Clamorous. 



10. Nimrod. 



11. Speedwell. 



12. Fairplay. 

 Hounds all portraits, but some names forgotten. — F. Grant. 



hunted slowly up by way of Braunston to Prior's Coppice. 

 In Touch Hill Gorse the fox waited for them, and they had 

 a racing twenty minutes, the last part of the way in view. 

 The fox took refuge in a drain, and Rockwood, the leading 

 hound, went in after him and killed him. With such dash 

 did the hound go in, that he had to be dug out. " This was," 

 says Lord Forester, " a seventeen-mile point." As the run 

 was over the best of the Cottesmore (then known as Lord 

 Lonsdale's), hounds were running over some of the best scent- 

 ing ground in the shires. 



But that hounds could hunt equally well in an entirely 

 different country we gather from the following note belong- 

 ing to the same season : — 



" In the morning hounds found a fox in Boothby, and ran 

 him for forty-five minutes and killed him. Then found a 



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