324 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1872 



Monday, September 2'Srd, Ridioare. — Drew Cavvarden Spring and all that 

 side blank. Also Pipe Wood. Found an old fox in Pear Tree Gorse, ran a 

 ring and through Laurence's Wood in the direction of Rough Park, and lost him. 

 Drew Rough Park blank. 



Tuesday, September 2Uh, Sudbury Coppice. — Found plenty of cubs. Rattled 

 one backwards and forwards between the Coppice and the Bottoms, and killed. 

 Got on to another, and killed him after a capital hunt. 



(I went to Scotland the next day, and only know what was done from 

 Charles Leedham's letters.) 



Thursday, September 2&th, Rangemore. — Found an old fox in the Deanery 

 plantation, ran him to Byrkley Lodge, and from there to Yoxall Lodge. 



Saturday, September 2Sth, Lidlington. — Found lots of foxes and killed a 

 brace of cubs. 



Monday, September 30th, Yoxall Lodge Hills. — Found cubs. Killed one. 



Tuesday, October 1st, Henhurst. — Found some cubs, and killed one. 



Thursday, October 3rd, Oorsty Leys. — Found cubs, and ran to ground. 

 Earths badly stopped. 



Saturday, October 5th, Wichnor. — A nice lot of cubs, and killed a brace, 



Monday, October 1th, Chartley. — A good show of old foxes — no cubs. Went 

 away with a fox to Draycott Woods, but could not kill him. 



Tuesday, October %th, Bangemore. — Plenty of cubs. Ran them from there to 

 Dunstall and back, and killed a brace. 



Thursday, October lOth, Catton. — Found cubs. Ran one to Fisherwick and 

 killed. 



Saturday, October \2th, Bagofs Woods. — Found very few foxes. Capital 

 scent in the woods. 



Monday, October lUh, The Kennels.— Brew the Birch Wood and found foxes. 

 Scent bad. 



Tuesday, October \5th, Chartley. — Found foxes. Ran to ground at Birch- 

 wood Park. 



Thursday, October \lth, Walton Wood. — Found an old fox, ran to Lullington, 

 and killed at Edingale. Capital hunting run of two hours. 



Saturday, October \Wi, Woodford Rough. — Did not find. Very bad night 

 and foxes supposed to be stopped in. Found an old fox by Buttermilk Hill and 

 killed him at Moot Spring. Very good day. 



Tuesday, October 22nd, Eedleston. — Drew Breward's Car blank. Found a 

 brace of old foxes in Ravensdale Park, ran to the new gorse and back two or 

 three times. Found no cubs, though the keepers spoke of having twenty ! The 

 first day I was out after my return from Scotland. 



Wednesday, October 23rd, Kedleston. — Breward's Car, Ravensdale Park, the 

 new gorse, and sundry small places all blank. Found an old fox in Champion's 

 Car. Very little scent. 



Friday, October 2bth, Kingston Woods. — Met at Housalem's Coppice, where 

 we did not find. An old fox went away from the far end of Kingston Wood, ran 

 a short ring and into Bagot's Woods, through Housalem's Coppice. Not much 

 scent, and we lost him. Found again in Black Gutter Coppice, ran through 

 Hart's Coppice, across the Park, back again as if we were going to the Birch Wood, 

 but he turned back across the Park into the woods. We had him, dead beat, in 

 front of us, when a heavy storm came on and saved his life. 



Saturday, October 26th, Hilton Gorse. — Found a nice lot of foxes. Chopped 

 a cub almost immediately, and afterwards ran an old fox for two hours in cover 

 and killed. Last day of cub-hunting. Eleven and a half brace of foxes. 



