CHAPTER VI 



Season 1875-76 



Bel voir Blood and Competition — '^Gillard's Compound" — Alfred Orbell 

 AV'hipper-in — Gillard's Opinion on digging- out Foxes— Tlie 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 

 A\'hipper-in^ has an awkward Experience — Mr. Micklethwaite on 

 Sport and Marriage — The Gray Horse Sluggai-d — Retrenchment 

 and Subsci-iption 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. 



annual puppy show in the 

 summer is adopted by most 

 kennels throughout the 

 kingdom, but the old order 

 at Belvoir was never to 

 enter into competition on 

 their own flags, or those 

 ^ of Peterborough. Occupy- 

 ing the premier position 

 by general consent, the 

 Duke's kennel had no occa- 

 sion to contest. Yet at Peterborough the beautiful 

 Belvoir blood won the ribbands for other packs 



The Fox on the Kennel. 



