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CHAPTER XXIIL 



1868-1869. 



OEMS OF THE KENNEL — GREAT RUN FROM RAVENSDALE 

 PARK GOOD RUN FROM EDNASTON GORSE. 



Field, May 21st, 1868:— 



MR. MEYNELL INGRAM'S HOUNDS. 



Bv " Cecil." 



Hoar Cross Hall, the family seat of Mr. Meynell Ingram, is very centrally 

 situated as regards all places of meeting, with the exception of those on the 

 northern extremity, which are hunted the first week in each month from 

 Kedleston inn, as mentioned in my communication last week. The kennels are 

 near to the house, an accommodation of inestimable value to every master 

 of hounds who takes a lively interest in the welfare of the pack. On the 

 ■occasion of my visit, I was most courteously received by Mr. Hugo Meynell 

 Ingram, and we forthwith proceeded to the flags. 



This year's list enumerates fifty-one couples and a half, nine couples and a 

 half of which are juveniles ; this is rather below their average, the dire disease 

 distemper having reduced their numbers. The sires on duty are Agent, Fairplay, 

 Rockwood, General, Absolute, Nimrod, Nathan, Finder, Marmion, with Manager 

 and Fleecer marked for promotion. 



Agent, in his sixth season, a black, white, and tan coloured hound, of good 

 proportions and thick through his body, is a son of the Duke of Rutland's Agent 

 and Hopeful. His Grace's Agent, through Mr. Foljambe's Forester, traces back 

 to the Belvoir kennels, connecting the Bluecap and Furrier strains, so often noticed 

 by me as a remarkable instance of conveying their type. Both Bluecap and 

 Furrier go back in precisely the same lines to Mr. Meynell's Guzman, entered in 

 1704, son of his German and Blowsy. Hopeful rejoices also in ancestors of 

 wonderful fame, and goes remotely into similar families as her partner. She was 

 a daughter of Alaric, a great favourite in these and other kennels, and Hostile. 

 He was a son of Falstaff and Agnes, and was descended, through Lord Yar- 

 Lorough's Flasher, in eight strains or more from their old Ranter. Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 Furrier is also in the escutcheon. Hostile was a daughter of Sir Watkin Wynn's 

 Admiral and his Harmony, and came to these kennels unentered. This line 

 introduces jVIr. Foljambe's Albion, with his Harbinger, and two strains from Mr. 

 'Osbaldeston's Piper, with a line from the Duke of Beaufort's Justice. There are 

 -also six infusions of the Brocklesby old Ranter in this order. 



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