CONTENTS xi 



eight Days' stop for Frost — Red -Letter Days afterwards — A Fall 

 taken by Captain Riddell — Lord Wilton and Lord Grey de Wilton 

 at Timber ...... Page 57 



CHAPTER VI 



Season 1875-76 



Belvoir Blood and Competition — ''Gillard's Compound" — Alfred Orbell 

 Whipper-in — Gillard's Opinion on digging out Foxes — The Rev. 

 " Billy " Newcome of Boothby and Mr. Banker Hardy of Gran- 

 tham the last home — A Run in the Fens piloted by Mr. F. Smith 

 — Lenton Church Spire — Cuthbert Bede's Pen — Peck, the second 

 Whipper-in, has an awkward Experience — Mr. Micklethwaite on 

 Sport and Marriage — The Gray Horse Sluggard — Retrenchment 

 and Subscription from the Lincolnshire side — Fox killed in a 

 Brewing-Tub at Sleaford — Mr. Tom Oliver — A good Day in 

 Leicestershire and Miss Miles in the Field and on Paper 



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CHAPTER VH 



Season 1876-77 



John Bull's Top-boots — Catching a Lamb-stealer — Thomas, Earl of 

 Wilton, Social AV^hip to the Quorn — Turkish Bath for Hunters — 

 Mr. Little Gilmour, Prince of the Heavies — Sir George Wombwell 

 — The Messrs. Behrens — The Butcher in Blue — The Hound 

 Weathergage entered — Belvoir and Brocklesby Entries — Will 

 Goodall and Rallywood in 1850 — Distinguishing Points of the 

 Belvoir Pack — Weathergage's Pedigree — Mr. Burbidge of Thorpe 

 and his Fox Covert — A Kill in Staunton Churchyard — Lord 

 John Manners across Country — Sir Beaumont and Lady Florence 

 Dixie — Major VV^hyte Melville— Captain Pennell Elmhirst — Melton 

 Spinney — The longest Run of the Season — Lord Carrington — 

 The best Day of the Season — The Hoi'se Melon — Presentation of 

 Plate to the Sixth Duke of Rutland, and his Speech . Page 87 



CHAPTER VIH 



Season 1877-78 



A scratch Pack v. a thoro'bred Pack — The Business of the Summer — 

 The blind Master from the Grove — Proof of the Pace of the Belvoir 

 Hounds — Lord Rossmore sui-prises Mr. Little Gilmour — Nine of 



