CHAPTER II 



Sport in the Sixties 



The Origin of Frank's Diary — Blowing- the Duke's Horn for the first 

 time — About Hunting-horns — A Pattern Horn — Colonel John 

 Reeve of Bulby Hall — Sir Thomas Whichcote — Mr. Chaworth 

 Musters and his Ancestors ; his Prowess in the Field — The Quorn 

 and Bel voir countries compared — Fatal Accident to a Quorn 

 Whipper-in — Mr. John Coupland succeeds Mr. 

 Musters to the Quorn — Mr. Gaskin of Sysonby 

 Lodge — About the Planting and Keeping of Fox 

 Coverts — Advice given to Frank Gillard by Mr. 

 Musters and the Duke of Rutland. 



ULLA dies sine linea" 

 — " there is no day 

 without a hne" — is strictly 

 apphcable to hunting, and 

 might with reason be 

 adopted as a family motto 

 by the house of Gillard. 

 The age when letter- 

 writing was a cultivated 

 art is a thing of the past, 

 but Frank Gillard began 

 his career when hunting 

 correspondents and news- 

 MK.j.cHAwoKTHM.sTEKs,M.F.H. P^pei' Tcportcrs were 



