CHAPTER X 



Seasons 1879-80 and 1880-81 



Hunt Changes — Tea with Frank Goodall, the Queen's Huntsman — A 

 Country equal to the Vagaries of any Weather — An awkward 

 Accident — Smite Hill Gorse Flames head a Fox — The big Ash 

 Wednesday Day — Mr. Alfred Brocklehurst first up — Colonel 

 Gosling borrows some dry Clothes — A kill under a Woman's 

 Petticoats — Frank rides a run under Chloroform — Will Wells' 

 Horse out all night — Twelve - Hour Cubbing Mornings — 

 Arthur Wilson^ Whip — Parson Bulleu of Eastwell — -Wet and 

 good Sport — Interviewing the Duke in his Bed — The Taste of a 

 " Pug " — Blooding a fat American Gentleman — A Jackal Tooth 

 Scarf-pin — A fast Gallop and dead Fox next Day — Lord Queens- 

 bury — Lord Doneraile, his Hounds, his pet Fox, his End — A long 

 Run, 



A Portrait. 



CHANGE is the general 

 order of things in this life, 

 but the Bel voir Hunt for a 

 century and a half escaped the 

 common lot, following the even 

 tenor of its way as a family pack 

 under the mastership of the 

 house of Manners. About 

 this time a general change 

 was effected in a compara- 

 tively small circle of the 

 fox - hunting world within 



