CHAPTER III 



Season 1870-71 



The Hunting View from Belvoir Castle — Appointment of Huntsman 

 to the Belvoir— Letters of Congratulation — Will Goodall^ junior^ 

 First Whip — The Institution of the Hound Van — The Kennels at 

 Ropsley — James Cooper, late Huntsman — The Duke of Rutland's 

 Visit to the Kennel — Dick Christian's Story of the Duke's Leap— 

 The Duke as a Master — Mr. George Lane Fox's Letter to Mr. 

 Tom Parrington — Frank's First Entry in the Diary, Aug. 23, 

 1870 — Osbaldeston Furrier — The Belvoir and Cottesmore Hunts 

 join in the Field — The Duke takes a heavy Fall — Mr. Tom 

 Hutchinson picks him up — A Day of Disaster — Sir ^Vatkin 

 Winn's " Royal " and John Walker in his Kennel— A good Run, 

 and Mr. Henry Custauce asks for the Brush — H.R.H. the Prince 

 of Wales has a Day — The Field out. 



ELVOIR and fox- 

 hunting are al- 

 most interchange- 

 able terms, for no 

 history of the one 

 can possibly be 

 complete without 

 frequent mention of 

 the other. A Duke of Rutland may stand at one 

 window of his dining-room and overlook twenty 

 parishes, each of which bears a name that is associ- 



The Belvoir Hound Van. 



