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the Messrs. Hornsby in one run — The Rectoi* of Colsterworth's 

 Cottesmore Hunt Hat — Frank's Description of a good Hound Day — 

 The Saffron Family as Hounds — The Samuda Pink Wedding — 

 Another good Hound Day, Senator, Saffron and Brusher — The 

 Hound Wellington killed on the Railway — A good Run from Melton 

 Spring — Lady Florence Dixie presented with the Brush — Story 

 of Captain " Tom " Boyce winning a Brush and Hunt Button — A 

 good Run and Lady Florence Chaplin presented with a Brush — The 

 Ash Wednesday Run — The Hon. H. H. Molyneux's Collection of 

 Ash Wednesday Masks — The Horse Wing gets in the Smite — The 

 Hose Gorse black Fox rather wide of his Home . Page 102 



CHAPTER IX 



Season 1878-79 



Will Wells, Whipper-in — George Gillson's Career — George Cottrell 

 leads for a Sovereign — A Wet Jacket — The Belvoir and Quorn 

 Packs clash — Two good Gallops from Leadenham — Colonel John 

 Reeves' Entree Dish — Parson Heathcote's Pudding — Brook- 

 jumping — The good Fox of Sherbrooke's Covert — A Run to the 

 " Forty Foot " Drain — A severe Run from Sproxton to Crown 

 Point — A curious Accident to Mr. Alfred Cross — Good Sport — 

 The Messrs. Frank and George Gordon — Three Foxes killed by 

 Haverholme — The Horse Peter — Mr. Fisher of Orston Page 119 



CHAPTER X 



Seasons 1879-80 and 1880-81 



Hunt Changes — Tea with Frank Goodall, the Queen's Huntsman — A 

 Country equal to the Vagaries of any Weather — An awkward 

 Accident — Smite Hill Gorse Flames head a Fox — The big Ash 

 Wednesday Dajf — Mr. Alfred Brocklehurst first up — Colonel 

 Gosling borrows some dry Clothes — A Kill under a Woman's 

 Petticoats — Frank Rides a run under Chloroform — Will Wells' 

 Horse out all night — Twelve - Hour Cubbing Mornings — 

 Arthur Wilson, Whip — Parson Bullen of Eastwell — Wet and 

 good Sport — Interviewing the Duke in his Bed — The Taste of a 

 " Pug " — Blooding a fat American Gentleman— A Jackal Tooth 

 Scarf-pin — A fast Gallop and dead Fox next Day — Lord Queens- 

 bury — Lord Doneraile, his Hounds, his pet Fox, his End — A 

 long Run ...... Page 134 



