CHAPTER XVIII 



Seasons 1893-94 and 1894-95 



T~)ATES of commencing Cub -Hunting — 

 ~ Hay — The Hounds Old Gambler, 



Skylark^ the Daughter of Druid 

 — Too many Foxes killed in a 

 Morning — Sir George Whichcote 

 — The Hunt Honorary Secretary- 

 ship — Lord Lonsdale takes the 

 Mastership of the Quorn — Frank 

 Gillard's Contemporary Tom Firr 

 — The Old Hunt Horse 

 Oscar carries Miss Robinson 

 — Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, 

 Mayor of Grantham, and 

 ^-^ ~At' *^® Meet at the Guild Hall 



^ — The Fifteen-mile Stubton 



The Heathcote Patent Safety. t, h^t ot-^at i j 



Run, Mr. S. K. Marsland 



presented with the Brush at the end of it — Mr. and Mrs. C. J. 



Phillips' Coverts at Staunton — The Three Shire Bush — Mrs. Bend, 



the Wife of the Earth-stopper, presented with a Brush— Two good 



Days before the Frost — A good Run from Heathcote's Covert with 



a Bobtail — Miss Gertrude Heathcote wins the Belvoir Hunt Red 



Coat Race— The Heathcote Patent Safety Habit— The Entry 1894 



— Mr. W. Theobald Maud on Canvas and in the Field — Death of 



the Hound Nominal — The Revival of the Folkingham Meet and 



a great Day's Sport — Lord Willoughby de Eresby presented with 



the Brush — Pulpit Allusions — Bad Falls — Harry Maiden hunts 



the Pack — The Duke of Rutland's seventy-sixth Birthday — The 



long Frost — A good Run and Kill at Newton Hall — Another good 



Run and Kill at Lenton Vicarage — The Melton Contingent. 



