Show castle belvoir castle has come in for a fair bhare of newspaper anecdotes pseudo gothic in etyle its broad turrets and battlemented walk stand on the top of a mound which was thrown up at the end of a ebur of tho leicestershire Leicester shire welds by robert de standard bearer of the conqueror from its lordly terraces the eye ranges over a wide expanse of landscape on which there rise conspicuous the ruined keep of nottingham and Lincol ns cathedral towers the works of art are numerous but with one or two exceptions of secondary importance in the cellar is a monster cask of ale called sifter the founder of the castle its capacity is 1300 gallons and twelve people have dined in it is also a silver punch bowl rest ing upon four massive eagles claws which is used on the occasion of a fam ily christening at the foot of tha wooded bill is stabling for horses a mile and a half distant are the kennels for the fox hounds aad from the trees somewhat tarther off there emerges tho steeple of the village of thorpe where is a farm noted for the breeding of prize rattle london star |