242 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1867 



On February 2nd they had a capital run of an hour 

 and three-quarters. Finding in Blithfield Gorse, they ran 

 by the Rectory, below Newton village, through Newton 

 Gorse, and then through the corner of Droynton Wood, 

 down the Blythe side to Boothy, under Newton village, 

 crossed the Blythe, through Stansley's Wood and the 

 Warren Covert, by Yeatsall, through the Forge Coppice, 

 over the Lichfield road and Bromley Hurst, crossed at the 

 turnpike and killed him at Mr. Hill's farm on Bromley 

 Park. 



Then comes a short, pithy entry (pregnant with mean- 

 ing) in the diary : " February 5th, Kedleston. — Drew from 

 Darley osier bed to Brailsford Gorse blank." And then, 

 presumably, went home. 



On March 4th they drew the New Gorse at LuUington 

 for the first time, found, and crossed the Mease. Thence 

 they went on by Clifton to Thorpe, where they checked. 

 Hitting it off again, they hunted very nicely by Lecking- 

 ton to Newton, where they turned back to the left, and 

 killed their fox at Clifton, after a nice run of one hour. 



Hunting went on till quite late ; in fact, up till April 

 ■25th, the last few days being on Cannock Chace. The 

 last day but one was rather a Jiasco, as they killed a 

 vixen to begin with, and dug six cubs out in Wolseley 

 Park to wind up with. 



Killed, seventeen brace of foxes ; ran to ground, two 

 brace ; blank days, two ; number of hunting days, sixty- 

 three. 



In May Mr. Meynell Ingram called a meeting of the 

 Hunt to appeal to the county to preserve foxes. This 

 was almost the only meeting of the kind of which there 

 is any record, except the two complimentary dinners to 

 the old " Squire " Meynell Ingram, at the King's Head, 

 Derby, in 1839 and in 1843. At the latter, as has been 

 mentioned before, he was presented with a silver-gilt 

 model of his huntsman, earth-stopper, and an old oak tree 

 near Hoar Cross. It may here be mentioned that, as a 

 privilege, a few people were allowed to subscribe five 



