CHAPTER XV 



Seasons 1887-88 and 1888-89 



Gillard's Family — Frank Gillard, junior, joins the Hunt Staff — A good 

 Run from Sapperton Wood ; Mr. John Gubbins presented with the 

 Brush — Mr. Cecil Rudkin goes hard — Hunting till Dark — The 

 Belvoir and Cottesmore Hounds come together in the Field — The 

 Hound Cottesmore Prodigal — The Kennels to which Frank went 

 for Blood — Old Sir Thomas Whichcote's Opinion of the Day, and 

 his Lettei* — The late Duke of Clarence — Death of Mrs. Willson of 

 Rauceby — Dangers of a Swallow-Hole — Mr. Otho Paget jumps 

 locked Railway Gates — Death of the Master, the Sixth Duke 

 of Rutland — Succession of the Seventh Duke of Rutland — Stud 

 Hounds, the Entry and Nominal — Good Hound Day by Culver- 

 thorpe — Aswarby Foxes — An Accident to the Hound Van — Mr. 

 Jolland wins a Feu-Land Fox's Brush — Count Zhrowski — Lost 

 Hounds finding their Way back — Ash Wednesday drops out of 

 the Fixtures — Mr. Richard Fenwick presented with a Brush — 

 A Lady of eighty-six presented with her first Brush — Captain 



Pennell Elmhirst's Tribute to 

 Gillard's Vigour and Keenness 

 at the end of his nineteenth 

 season Huntsman. 



W 



Gordon, by Gambler, 18S5. 



girls and boys of Frank 



HAT'S 



bred in 



the bone 



comes out in the 



flesh," and, as might 



be expected, the 



Gillard's numerous 



