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prevent his taking his degree in due course. There is 

 one entry, however, in this diary which must not be 

 omitted, as it shows that his zeal for hunting was of no 

 ordinary character, reminding one very much of the Eev. 

 John Russell, in similar circumstances. " February 14th, 

 1842. Got up at four a.m. Walked to Derby. Mail- 

 cart to Ashby. Dog-cart to Appleby to breakfast. I rode 

 Gummy Kuffles, a four-year-old chestnut, with Atherstone 

 hounds at Odston. Good day's sport. Left them 

 running." 



The first mention of Mr. Meynell's hounds is in 1842, 

 when he rode a new brown mare bought from his uncle, 

 Mr. J. Holden, and they had a blank day from Drakelowe. 



On March 23rd, 1842, " Meynell, at Spread Eagle. 

 Runagate. Good half-hour from Swarkeston and lost. 

 Found again at Sutton Gorse, and ran fifty minutes with- 

 out a check to Ednaston, crossing Longford and Brailsford 

 brooks. Nearly all grass. Racing for a start got a 

 rattling fall, horse turning over and over. Blane fell at 

 the same fence ; he, E. Holden, Bromley, and I had quite 

 the best of it. The best run I ever saw. Meynell, junior, 

 had enough, and stopped the hounds at Ednaston, the first 

 check they had. N.B. — had drawn the Gorse, and hounds 

 were coming out, before he broke, and he was as good a 

 fox as ever ran." Here is a plain, unvarnished tale of 

 a run with the Meynell, nearly sixty years ago, and there 

 can be no doubt that the same hand which wrote, " which 

 of course I did not see," in the first entry, did not 

 exasfgerate when it claimed to have been one of the four 

 in this capital gallop. In 1843, he "rode Runagate to see 

 stag turned out to Yates's harriers at Bretby," which is 

 the first mention of the well-known sportsman hunting 

 on that side. 



On February 20th, he had a turn at another form of 

 sport. " Rode J. Story's chestnut mare in Swarkeston 

 steeple-chaces. Ten started. Andinwood's British Yeoman 

 first ; I second, with a fall in a thick bullfinch ; the rest 

 beaten off." 



