CHAPTER XIX 



Season 1895-96 



Stud Hounds at Belvoir Kennel — Gillard relating the Merits of each 

 Hound — The Families of Gambler^ Shamrock^ and Pirate com- 

 pared — Hard Ground — The Fox-hunter's Wedding — Opening Day 

 — The Buckminster to Edmonthorpe Gallop — Record Time — The 

 Pack and Huntsman's Horse — Another Buckminster to Woodwell 

 Head Gallop — Continued good Sport in Leicestershire and Lincoln- 

 shire during January — Retirement of the Duke of Rutland — The 

 Meeting of the Hunt in Grantham — The Hunt Committee — Frank 

 Gillard's last Leicestershire Day a brilliant one — A Kill in Ranks- 

 boro Gorse — The Horse Farewell — The number of Foxes killed 



in twenty-six Seasons — Tlie new 

 Master, Sir Gilbert Greenall — A 

 Tribute to Gillard's Care of the 

 Pack — The Testimonial to the 

 retiring Huntsman — Sir William 

 E. Welby Gregory's Speech — 

 F'rank Gillard's Farewell. 



THE concluding 

 chapter, like a 

 beautiful sunset, 

 necessarily has a tinge 

 of sadness, because it 

 brings us to the first 

 break in the mastership 



Portrait of a Lady. 



