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other pack of his day. Two very extraordinary ones 

 happened, of a very rare description ; one was a run of 

 one hour and twenty minutes without a check, and they 

 killed their fox ; the other was two hours and fifty 

 minutes without a cast, and killed. The hounds in the 

 first run kept well together, and only two horses per- 

 formed it. The other run was performed by the whole 

 of the pack, and though all were up at the death 

 two or three slackened their pace just at the last. One 

 horse only went the whole of it Mr Meynell's natural 

 taste led him to admire large hounds, but his experience 

 convinced him that small ones were generally the 

 stoutest, soundest, and in every respect the most 

 executive.' 



There you have a fair resume of the system or science 

 which has made the name of Hugo Meynell famous in 

 the annals of fox-hunting. Mr Delme Radcliffe, him- 

 self a brilliant ornament of the Chase, has tried hard to 

 unearth some anecdotes of the great master which might 

 enable posterity to form some idea of his character as a 

 man. But despite the fact that Mr Delme Radcliffe had 

 the advantage of personal intercourse with Mr Charles 

 Loraine Smith, an intimate friend of Hugo Meynell's, 

 and had all the assistance the members of the Meynell 

 family could afford him, his success has been but small. 

 Here, however, are some of the most interesting facts 

 which he has collected about his hero : — 



' Mr Meynell had at no time more than three or 

 four subscribers to his hounds, and at first only two — 

 Lord R. Cavendish and Mr Boothby, brother to the lady 

 who became Mr Meynell's second wife. With Mr 

 Boothby, nicknamed * Prince,' he lived for some time at 

 Langton, Hall ; and the hounds, in those days, were kept 



