118 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1831 



Possibly it was on account of his performances on this 

 day that " little Tom " is promoted to " Tom Junior" ! 



Eegular hunting began on Monday, (3ctober 17th, at 

 Sudbury Coppice. There was a good run on November 

 26th from Cubley Gorse, across to Bentley Car, where 

 there were two or three foxes on foot. However, they 

 came away from there, and ran to ground in a drain 

 at the Cubley brook. From this they bolted their fox, 

 and ran, by Marston, through Eaton Wood, over the Dove 

 near Crakemarsh, up to Nott Hill, Wood Farm, and 

 Madeley Wood. Here they probably changed, for they 

 came back to ground at Alton. There were no end of 

 falls, and Mr. Arnold killed his horse. 



They had a certain amount of good runs, notably one 

 of four hours and a half, with a kill at the end, all round 

 about the Bretby country, but no run with any great 

 point till March 10th, when they met at Kedleston, and 

 did not find till they got to Bentley Car. But when they 

 did find it was to some purpose, for they had a tremendous 

 run. They went away at a great pace nearly to Sudbury 

 Coppice, swung round by Cubley to the gorse, crossed the 

 Ashbourne-Cubley road, opposite Stydd Hall. Then they 

 ran on by Stydd over Darley Moor, past Edlaston, 

 Wyaston, by Shirley Park, Bradley, Hulland, and Atlow, 

 nearly to Hopton, where the Master stopped the hounds, 

 after they had been running hard for two hours and 

 twenty minutes. 



This was undoubtedly the run of the season, which 

 ended on April 16th at Blithfield. 



Foxes killed, twenty-two and a half brace ; to ground, 

 seven and a half brace ; lost, twenty-one brace ; blank 

 days, five. The total finds, therefore, come to a hundred 

 and two foxes; in 1899-1900 the total was three hundred 

 and sixty. 



