CHAPTER 1 

 Early Days 



A Tribute to Fox-hunting — Frank Gillard's Fame as a Hound-Breeder 

 — The Belvoir and the Brocklesby — Tlie Points of tlie Belvoir 

 Blood — Frank Gillard's Qualities — His Early Life in Devonshire^ 

 and Arrival at Belvoir — The Sixth Duke of Rutland and Lord 

 Forester — Mr. Henry Chaplin, M. P., Master of the Burton — 

 Anecdotes — Lord Forester and old Will Goodall — Huntsman to 

 Mr. John Chaworth Musters, the South Notts and Quorn — Mr. 

 Musters' horse Valesman — The hunters Lady Grey and Methodist — 

 Colonel Burnaby, M.P.— Mr. Tailby, M.F.H.— Sporting Parsons : 

 the Rev. H. Houson, the Rev. Desborowe, Rev. Tliomas Heath- 

 cote, Rev. Waters, Rev. King, Rev. T. Bullen, Rev. John Cal- 

 craft, Rev. R. Sharpe, the Rev. W. Newcome, Rev. J. P. Younge, 

 Rev. Banks Wright, the Rev. G. Carter — Verses by Mr. Parke of 

 Stragglethorpe — Fathers of the Hunt. 



^^MONG the pleasantest re- 

 j~\ collections of a pleasur- 

 able life, our days with 

 hounds stand out as 

 red-letter days in the 

 calendar of the mem- 

 ory. There is no 

 satisfaction hke a good 

 day's sport. George 

 Whyte Melville said, 

 " After a good day he 

 done a good action." Fox- 



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