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CHAPTER XI 



MR. COUPLAND 



Mr. Coupland establishes hounds in Bombay, 315. Buys Craven hounds, 

 315. A member of the Coaching Club, and runs steeplechasers, 316. 

 Frank Gillard as huntsman, 316. Sale of Mr. Musters's horses, 317. 

 Mr. Coupland institutes puppy shows at Quorn, 317. Puppy walking, 

 317. Swimming the Wreake, 318, 319. Annual sale of horses, 319. 

 Visit of Prince of Wales, 320. Prince of Wales's Covert, 330. Mr. Coup- 

 land and the jibbing pony, 321. Death of Master C. C. H. Webster, 321. 

 Death of Joseph Hobson, 322. The "twice accursed" Midland Rail- 

 way, 322. Death of Lord Chesterfield, 323. Clashing of Quorn and 

 Mr. Musters's hounds, 323, 324. Death of Will Derry, 324. Melton 

 Mowbray pork-pies, 324. Accident to Lady Ida Hope, 324. Abolition 

 of the toll-bar at Kirby Gate, 325. Hunting on wheels, 325. Foreign 

 visitors to Melton Mowbray, 326. A runaway pack, 326, 327. Tom 

 Firr becomes huntsman, 327. Prince of Wales attends Melton Steeple- 

 chases, 328. Deaths of Lord Hopetoun and the Hon. H. Coventry, 

 329. Payment of earth-stoppers, 329. Earth-stoppers' dinner, 330. 

 Hound show at Harrogate, 330. Presentation to Mr. Coupland by 

 earth-stoppers, 331. Accident to Tom Firr, 331. Crossing a bridge, 

 331, 332. Riding on the railway-line, 332, 333. The covert fund ques- 

 tion, 333. Death of Lord Rossmore, 333. A hunting Ritualist, 334. 

 The Great Yorkshire Hound Show, 334. The Empress of Austria at 

 Melton, 334. Death of Lord Forester, 335. Death of Mrs. Coupland, 

 336. Lord Grey de Wilton and the Melton Canal Company, 336. A 

 hard-riding visitor, 336, 337. Accident to Lord Stamford, 337. Popu- 

 larity of Mr. Coupland, 337, 338. Death of Mr. Herrick, 338. The 

 Alexandra Park Hound Show, 338. Hound show at Driffield, 339. 

 Opening of the Leicester Horse Repository, 340. Accident to Firr, 340. 

 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Melton, 340, 341. Hound show at 

 Skipworth-in-Craven, 341. Acting upon impulse, 341. A dead horse 

 and a dyed one, 342. The Queen's staghounds visit the Cottesmore 

 country, 342. Hound show at York, 343. Colonel Burnaby and 

 Leicestershire old soldiers, 343. Scarcity of foxes, 344. Empress of 

 Austria in Leicestershire, and accident to Lord James Douglas, 344. 

 The steeplechase horse " Doctor," 344, 345. The Rev. John Russell at 

 Kirby Gate, 345. A horse jumps into a tobacconist's shop, 345. Death 

 of John Goddard, 345. Death of Mr. Andrew Heseltine, 346. Report 

 that the Duke of Portland would succeed Mr. Coupland, 347. Protest 

 against advertising fixtures, 347. Death of Lord Wilton, 347, 348, 349. 

 Accident to Mr. Musters, 349. Presentation to Sir A. Hazelrigg, 

 349. Portrait of Firr, 349. Quarrymen mislead a hunting-man, 350. 

 Hunt picture, 350. Death of General Burnaby, 350. Mr. Trew and 

 the Prince of Wales's Gorse, 351. Accident to Mr. H. Barclay, 352. 

 Lord Lonsdale takes his hounds from Lincolnshire to Scraptoft Hall, 

 352. Retirement of Mr. Coupland, 353, 354. 



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