1872] "DERBY WEEK." 319 



Waterpark in undertaking the mastership of the hunt was, 

 and ought to be, to provide the greatest amount of sport 

 for the greatest number the country would afford ; there- 

 fore the social arrangements of one person or another 

 ought not to enter into their consideration, but simply 

 the hunting of the country to the best possible advantage. 

 He did not think that due advantages would result from 

 hunting four days a week by the arrangement suggested 

 by Mr. Coke. To mention one thing only, supposing 

 frost should come, it might happen in the first week in 

 December, the first week in January, and the first week 

 in February, the coverts would be stopped by frost, and 

 the result would be that the coverts would not be drawn, 

 and the sport would be confined to cub-hunting. There 

 was a licence allowed to the master of the hounds, and if 

 upon any particular occasion any member of the hunt 

 desired a change in the programme for the convenience of 

 his friends, he (Mr. Clowes) and Lord Waterpark would 

 be most happy to comply with the request. He did not 

 think it of advantage to the country that the hounds, as 

 a rule, should be kept on one side of the country altogether 

 during one week. 



Mr. Holden stated that during the whole of his hunting 

 experience, the members of the hunt had been thankful 

 to Mr. Meynell Ingram for hunting the country as he had 

 thought best, but he thought that the " Derby Week " 

 was a somewhat inconvenient arrangement to owners of 

 coverts, on the grounds Mr. Clowes himself had mentioned, 

 viz. that there were two or three months in winter when 

 there was very severe frost, and at such times the coverts 

 had remained without being drawn more than once in the 

 whole season. To himself, as an owner of coverts, this 

 was not satisfactory. As the hounds were now to be kept 

 in the centre of the country, he would much rather that 

 the question of " Derby Week " should be left for the 

 masters of the hounds to decide. The two gentlemen 

 selected would not fail to give satisfaction with regard to 

 the question, which might be safely left to them, and he 



