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and, having spent much of her time as a girl with her 

 uncle, ]Mr. Davenport of Maer, once Master of the North 

 Stafford hounds, knew a great deal about hounds and hunt- 

 ing. Mr. L. W. Frank, her second son, who went, after 

 his mother's death, to live at St. Mary's Mount, Uttoxeter, 

 is a regular follower of the Meynell, and goes well. His 

 elder brother, who always used to be out hunting when 

 hounds were within reach of Ashbourne, left the Meynell 

 country when he married many years ago. 



