1842] QUEEN ADELAIDE AT SUDBURY. Ul 



state of the country, which also was the cause of many falls and duckings in the 

 course of the day. The field had not long to wait before a brace of foxes were 

 viewed away from Sutton Gorse. The hounds were again laid on, with a capital 

 Bcent, and Reynard, fortunately, took a beautiful line of grass, with regular, stiff, 

 and severe fencing, and such as none but those who were well mounted could get 

 on with. The pace, very good at first, soon became tremendous. Longford, 

 Thurvaston, and Radburne were passed without a check, and the gallant fox then 

 turned straight for Etwall, and led his pursuers across the well-known brook — 

 near that village — at any time a rum one to get over and now bank full. The. 

 run up to the brook was an hour and twenty minutes at racing pace, but, as soon 

 as the hounds were over, scent began to fail ; and, after a quarter of an hour of 

 slow hunting, the hounds were flogged oif, after as good a run and over as fine a 

 country as any sportsman may wish to see. From the severity of the pace and 

 the length of the run but few were with the hounds at the finish. Amongst the 

 lucky few were Captain Meynell, Mr. Meynell, jun., Messrs. Johnston, Bass, 

 Wilmot, Arkwright, Mouseley, and one or two others. Every judge of hounds 

 and hunting, who has seen Mr. Meynell's pack this year, has expressed an 

 opinion that there were few packs equal to them — none superior. 



On February 28th tliey had another good day, described 

 by a " Lover of Fox-hunting," in Bell's Life : — 



This gallant pack met at Sudbury, drew the Coppice and found lots of foxes ; 

 went away with a vixen, and, after a ring of twenty-five minutes, ran into her. 

 Drew Cubley Gorse blank {Proh Pudor !), thence to Bentley Car. Found a brace 

 and went away with a regular old Derbyshire fox sharp to Longford, thence to 

 Cubley Gorse, and hark away to Snelston, over Darley Moor— very heavy and deei> 

 — then, skirting Shirley and Shirley Park, back to Longford, skirting the Car away 

 to Bentley Car, and thence at a good hunting pace by Boylestono to Sudbury 

 Coppice, and, by the indefatigable exertions of the huntsman, Joe, backed by the 

 Earl of Chesterfield on his third horse, ran gallantly into him, after as hard a 

 day's sport as need be seen. Amongst the few, of a very numerous field, we 

 observed at the finish the Earl of Chesterfield, H. S. Wilmot, Esq., the Rev. G. 

 Buckston, and F. Bradshaw, Esq. Several of the horses were left in the fields, 

 dead beat, and one gallant mare has since died. 



This must have been a most punishing run of at least 

 eighteen miles as hounds ran. The writer well remembers 

 telling Charles Leedham about a wonderful run with the 

 Hon. Mark Rolle's hounds when Stovin was huntsman. 

 They ran a regular old Dartmoor Hector till all the horses 

 were beat. Then Stovin took to his feet, the hounds 

 could not gain on the fox, nor the fox get any farther 

 away from the hounds. At last, the former sat down and 

 barked, the hounds lay down all round him, and the 

 huntsman knocked him on the head. Five horses died, 

 and hounds did not get back to kennels till two o'clock in 



