CHAPTER VII 



Season 1876-77 



John Bull's Top-boots — Catching a Lamb-stealer — Thomas, Eai-1 of 

 ^Filton, Social Whip to the Quorn — ^Turkish Bath for Hunters- 

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

 — The Messrs. Behrens — Tlie 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 Whyte Melville — Captain Pennell Elmhirst — Melton 

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

 The best Day of the Season — The Horse Melon — Presentation of 

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



WENTY-SIX seasons 

 is no considerable 

 period when marking 

 the flight of time, yet 

 in the history of a pack 

 of hounds it gives 

 a record of many 

 changes in the way 

 we live and conduct 

 our sport. When 



Swept over everything in Chase. Gillard COmmenCCd tO 



hunt the Belvoir hounds, a fine old generation of 



