CHAPTER XVII 



Seasons 1891-92 and 1892-93 



Reduced to a Four-day-a-week Pack — An exceptionally good Lot of 

 young Hounds by Belvoir Pirate and RufFord Dancer — Lord 

 Willougliby de Brooke's opinion of Fallible — Boys and Girls 

 entered to Hounds — Visit of H.R.H. Princess Beatrice of Batten- 

 berg — Death of Sir Thomas Whichcote and Mourning for H.R.H. 

 the Duke of Clarence — A Burst from Coston Covert — Old Farewell 

 gives Frank a Fall — Lord Lonsdale saves Mr. Pidcock's Life — 

 Father O'Flynn^the Grand National Steeplechase Winner — Vigilant 

 wins a Chase for Gillard at Melton — Funeral of Mr. J. Nicholas 

 Charlton — The young Hound Tapster and his End — Good Gallops 

 in November, one voted the best seen in three years — A Record 

 Stop for Frost — A Hunt in Freeby Church for a Fox — A Nine-Mile 

 Point in the Fog from Aslackby to Weaver's Lodge — A Race from 

 Staunton Thorns to Normanton Covert — The best Run Gillard ever 

 saw — The Rain Register in a dry March — Lenton Brook — Two 

 Runs into Haconby Fen 1865 and 1893, 



^O the regi'et of 

 all sportsmen, the 

 noble master of 

 the Belvoh' found it 

 necessary to hunt his 

 hounds four instead of 

 five days a week. As 

 the saying is, " Needs must when the devil drives " ; 

 and the devils to drive this stage were the de- 



The Hunt Special. 



