CHAPTER XIV 



Seasons 1885-86 and 1886-87 



Six Masters of Hounds out Cub-huntiug — Mr. Brockton of Farndon — 

 The big Day of the Season ending at Blankney — Good Hound 

 Work — A Day with Lord Lonsdale's Hounds at Blankney — Blood- 

 ing Lord William Manners — Mr. Basil Cochrane — The hardest Day 

 of the Season with many Leicestershire Foxes — Home on Foot, 

 all the Horses beat — Three of the Hunt Horses — Frank Beers the 

 Grafton Huntsman — A note about the Brocklesby Kennel — Several 

 good Days — A Run and Kill by the Forty-Foot Drain — A Wedding 

 Special saves the Pack from Destruction — A good March Gallop 

 and Kill in an Ash Tree — A Note of Music in Frank's Diary — The 

 Fowl-House Door opens to the Name of the Duke. 



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The Stacker's Aet. 



O less than six masters 

 of hounds came to 

 look at us one morn- 

 ing during the cubbing 

 season when we met at Crox- 

 ton Park. They were ]Mr. 

 Lort PhiUips from the North 

 Warwickshire, Mr. Chandos 

 Pole from the Meynell, Mr. 

 W. E. Wemyss from the Bur- 

 ton, Mr. Coupland from the 

 Quorn, Lord JVIiddleton from 

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