30 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



master of the Burton, coming to Belvoir as first 

 whip in 1870. Springing from a family to whom 

 " hunting a pack of hounds " comes as naturally as 

 finding game does to a setter, he proved himself a 

 brilliant whipper-in and subsequent huntsman to 

 the Pytchley. 



Complaints were made in Cooper's time that 

 beautiful as the Belvoir hounds were in their work, 

 they did not say enough about it, and it was the 

 one thing that Gillard fancied faulty when he came 

 as huntsman. The kennel was full of Senator (1862) 

 blood. Cooper swore by him and everything that 

 he got; his was the most fashionable strain. Senator 

 was by Singer out of Destitute ; Singer by Comus 

 out of Syren, by Mr. Drake's Duster (1844) out of 

 Sprightly, by the Grov^e Singer. Destitute was by 

 Sir Richard Sutton's Dryden out of Tuneful, by 

 Trouncer out of Skilful, by Grove Stormer. The 

 two special quahties Senator transmitted to his 

 stock were nose and drive. His own sister 

 Destitute had the best nose to work a hne down a 

 road that Frank Beers ever saw a foxhound possess. 

 Then all the Senators could drive at any pace, and 

 old Jack Morgan said, at the time he had a good 

 many of them in Lord Galway's pack, " They do 

 get their hackles up when a fox is sinking." 



There was a hound, called Wonder, in the kennel 

 with a voice hke a bell, and he did not fail to use 

 it at the right moment. For this quality Gillard 

 used him freely, although he was not of the 

 Senator line, being the son of Chanticleer, son of 

 Chaser, son of Brocklesby Rally wood, brought to 



