xiv HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



Belvoir Hunt Steeplechase Course — A Leicestershire Spin^ — The 

 Marquis of AV'aterford — A critical Field out for the last Day's 

 Sport ....... Page 180 



CHAPTER XIV 



Seasons 1885-8G axd 1886-87 



Six Masters of Hounds out Cub-hunting — Mr. Brockton of Farndon — 

 Tlie big Day of the Season ending at Blankney — Good Hound 

 ^Vork — A Day with Lord Lonsdale's Hounds at Blankney — Blood- 

 ing Lord William Manners — Mr. Basil Cochrane — The hardest Day 

 of the Season with many Leicestershire Foxes — Home on Foot, 

 all the Horses beat — Three of the Hunt Horses — Frank Beers the 

 Grafton Huntsman — A Note about the Brocklesby Kennel — Several 

 good Days — A Run and Kill by the Forty-Foot Drain — A Wedding 

 Special saves the Pack from Destruction — A good March Gallop 

 and Kill in an Ash Tree — A Note of Music in Frank's Diary — The 

 Fowl-House Door opens to the Name of the Duke . Page 193 



CHAPTER XV 



Seasons 1887-88 and 1888-89 



Gillard's Family — Frank Gillard, junior, joins the Hunt Staff — A good 

 Run from Sapperton Wood ; Mr. John Gubbins presented with the 

 Brush — Mr. Cecil Rudkin goes hard — Hunting till Dark — The 

 Belvoir and Cottesmore Hounds come together in the Field — The 

 Hound Cottesmore Prodigal — The Kennels to which Frank went 

 for Blood — Old Sir Thomas Whichcote's Opinion of the Day, and 

 his Letter — The late Duke of Clarence — Death of Mrs. ^Villson of 

 Rauceby — Dangers of a Swallow-Hole — Mr. Otho Paget jumps 

 locked Railway Gates — Death of the Master, the Sixth Duke 

 of Rutland — Succession of the Seventh Duke of Rutland — Stud 

 Hounds, the Entry and Nominal — Good Hound Day by Culver- 

 thorpe — Aswarby Foxes — An Accident to the Hound Van — Mr. 

 Jolland wins a Fen-Land Fox's Brush — Count Zhrowski — Lost 

 Hounds finding their Way back — Ash Wednesday drops out of the 

 Fixtures — Mr. Richard Fenwick presented with a Brush — A Lady 

 of eighty-six presented with her first Brush — Captain Pennell 

 Elmhirst's Tribute to Gillard's Vigour and Keenness at the end of 

 his nineteenth season Huntsman . . . Page 208 



