CHAPTER XI 



Season 1881-82 



Trojan kills a Fox single-handed — Heathcote Covert — Heathcote 

 Hunters, Blue Stockings, Janette, and Miss Coates — Hunting in 

 a Hurricane at Aswarby — Sir Thomas Whichcote's Pony — Will 

 Tidey, the hard-riding Keeper — Mr. Ashmead Bartlett Burdett- 

 Coutts joins the Hunt — A quick burst in Leicestershire — Good 

 Days — Folkingham Big Gorse — Accident to the Rev. Thomas 

 Heathcote — Buying Horses without seeing them — Berserker the 

 Hunter Sire — Mr. " Banker " Hardy— A Run Fox killed by Grey- 

 hounds — The gamest Fox ever hunted — Arthur Wilson swims the 

 Whissendine — Devonshire and Leicestershire Rivers compared — 

 Will Wells and Arthur Wilson across Country — Will Wells' 

 Testimonial. 



HE depth of the public 



purse gives the strength 



of the pulse for sport. 



A bad time for agriculture 



means a thousand -and -one 



industries suffer, and there 



/> is a falling off in capital 



^ for investment in sport. 



Owing to a very wet har- 



trojai*. vest, for corn stood out in 



the fields until October, the farmers had a very bad 



time of it, and the few good samples of wheat 



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