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celebrated the day by losing the hounds for some time in 

 the woods — a thing which did not often happen to him. 



But, to come to the Mill Dam again, after this 

 digression, it was on March 14th that Sir Frederick 

 Johnstone and Mr. Henry Chaplin, M.P., jumped it in the 

 order named. Hounds ran from the Spath, all over the 

 cream of our country, by Sutton Mill, where they turned 

 back again by Church Broughton, and went flying between 

 Sapperton and Boylestone. Here it was that Sir F. John- 

 stone went sailing down at the Mill Dam, which looks 

 like a miniature lake, and cleared it. Without a moment's 

 hesitation, Mr. Chaplin followed him, and these two had 

 hounds to themselves all the way to Sudbury Coppice 

 (thirty minutes). Here the pack got on a fresh fox and 

 ran well by Cubley, by Stydd Hall, up to Darley Moor, 

 where the hounds were stopped, and went home, after a 

 good run of an hour and thirty minutes in all. 



Mr. Beresford FitzHerbert also, on another occasion, 

 jumped this same place on Baily's Beads, a famous horse 

 of Sir William's, by Hurworth. Mr. Charles Cumming 

 jumped it too one day, but his horse fell on landing. Mr. 

 Hamar Bass got over the brook higher up on Paget, but 

 he also fell on landing. On this occasion hounds were hunt- 

 ing very slowly on a cold scent, and Mr. Bass had a go at 

 it for fun, asking what was the use of an extra good horse 

 if he could not do something out of the way. Another 

 time he jumped out of Sudbury Park, not far from Jack- 

 son the park-keeper's house ; and once got his horse to 

 jump the palings after several refusals, which called for a 

 good deal of courage and determination. Jackson, in his 

 white kennel-coat, on his white-faced cob, is quite a 

 familiar figure with the Meynell, and a rare good sports- 

 man he is. The mention of him calls to mind the stal- 

 wart form of Pike, the head keeper at Sudbury, who has 

 always such a lot of foxes, and contrives to keep a good 

 head of game into the bargain. 



The following is the only printed account of the 

 doings of the Meynell this year : — 



