xvi HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



CHAPTER XVIII 



Seasons 1893-94 and 1894-95 



Dates of commencing Cub-hunting — Foreign Hay — The Hounds Old 

 Gambler, Skylark, the Daughter of Druid — Too many Foxes killed 

 in a Morning — Sir George Wliichcote — Tlie Hunt Honorary 

 Secretaryship — Lord Lonsdale takes the Mastership of the Quorn 

 — Frank Gillard's Contemporarj^, Tom Firr — The old Hunt Horse 

 Oscar carries Miss Robinson — Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, Mayor of 

 Grantham, and the Meet at the Guild Hall — The Fifteen-mile 

 Stubton Run, Mr. S. K. Marsland presented with the Brush at 

 the end of it — Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Phillips' Coverts at Staunton — 

 Tlie Three Shire Bush — Mrs. Bend, the Wife of the Earth-stopper, 

 presented with a Brush — Two good Days before the Frost — A 

 good Run from Heathcote's Covert with a Bobtail — Miss Gertrude 

 Heathcote wins the Belvoir Hunt Red Coat Race — The Heathcote 

 Patent Safety Habit— The Entry 1894— Mr. W. Theobald Maud 

 on Canvas and in the Field — Death of the Hound Nominal — The 

 Revival of the Folkingham Meet and a great Day's Sport — Lord 

 Willoughby de Eresby presented with the Brush — Pulpit Allusions 

 — Bad Falls — Harry Maiden hunts the Pack — The Duke of 

 Rutland's seventy-sixth Birthday — The long Frost — A good Run 

 and Kill at Newton Hall — A good Run and Kill at Lenton 

 Vicarage — The Melton Contingent . . . Page 261 



CHAPTER XIX 



Season 1895-96 



Stud Hounds at Belvoir Kennel — Gillard relating the Merits of each 

 Hound — The Families of Gambler, Snamrock, and Pirate com- 

 pared — Hard Ground — The Fox-hunter's Wedding — Opening Day 

 — The Buckminster to Edmondthorpe Gallop — Record Time — The 

 Pack and Huntsman's Horse — Another Buckminster to Woodwell 

 Head Gallop — Continued good Sport in Leicestershire and Lincoln- 

 shire during January — Retirement of the Duke of Rutland — The 

 Meeting of the Hunt in Grantham — The Hunt Committee — Frank 

 Gillard's last Leicestershire Day a brilliant one — A Kill in Rank- 

 boro Gorse — The Horse Farewell — The number of Foxes killed 

 in twenty-six Seasons — The new Master, Sir Gilbert Greenall — A 

 Tribute to Gillard's Care of the Pack — The Testimonial to the 

 retiring Huntsman — Sir William E. Welby Gregory's Speech — 

 Frank Gillard's Farewell .... Page 278 



