342 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1873 



From Lord Waterpark's diary : — 



Cub-hunting began on August 25th, in Bagot's Woods ; there^was a good show 

 of foxes everywhere, sport was excellent, and sixteen brace of foxes were brought 

 to hand. 



Monday, Noveviber 3rd, Sudbury Coppice. — Found in the Coppice, ran 

 across the Park, down to Sapperton, where a man headed him and he turned to the 

 left, went up to Hare Hill, and laid down, dead beat, in a field. Here Eummager 

 (a fifth season hunter by Fairplay — Ringlet, the heroine of the great 1868 run) 

 got hold of him, but he managed to slip into an earth in the middle of the field. 

 Went back to the Coppice, got on a tired fox, and ran him to ground in the 

 main earth in the Aldermoor, which had not been stopped. Found in the 

 Bottoms, hunted over the Park, on to the left of Boylstone village, through 

 Potter's Covert, and on to Mamerton, where we lost him. Not much scent at 

 any time, and it got worse towards evening. Good day's sport. 



Tuesday, Needwood House. — Found in the far covert by the road, ran through 

 the Parson's Brake, as if he meant going through the Greaves, but he turned to 

 the left, ran by Hollybush Covert without going into it, down to Newborough. 

 Here he was headed and turned to the right, crossed the road by Newborough 

 Hall, ran through Daisy Bank and into Bagot's Pai'k, not far from the Park 

 Lodge. Eight across the Park, where the deer stopped us very much, into Lord's 

 Coppice, and through the corner of the Woods, across the Uttoxeter turnpike 

 road and on up to Blithfield, where we lost him. About nine miles as the crow 

 flies, and very pretty up to Bagot's Park, after that slow hunting. 



Thursday, lladburne. — Ran a ring from the Rough with an old fox and lost 

 him. Trotted back to the Rough, got away on better terms with another fox, 

 and ran very well up to Langley village (twenty minutes). Hunted him slowly 

 after this to Breward's Car, where he went to ground in the main earth, which 

 ought to have been stopped. Found a brace of foxes in Ravcnsdale Park; one 

 went to gi-ound at once ; the other we hunted twice round by the New Gorse, and 

 he then got to ground. Five foxes run to ground by the dog hounds this week 

 owing to imperfect stopping. 



Saturday, Blithhury. — Found in Pear Tree Gorse, ran a ring by the Black 

 Flats and into Pipe Wood. Not a particle of scent. Got on a fox which was 

 halloaed away from Pipe Wood, ran over the Blythe and across Bromleyhm-st 

 very fast, up to Hoar Cross Park, and on to the Brakenhurst, where we kept 

 changing foxes and running out to Yoxall Lodge and back again. It was a 

 very pretty gallop of twenty-five minutes. 



Monday, Novemlei' lOfk, Egginton. — It was an hour or more before a fox 

 broke from the gorse, and then we lost him in about two minutes. Found a brace 

 of foxes in an osier-bed close by. Got away on the back of one and lost him 

 immediately. Hilton Gorse blank. No covert in it to speak of. Found again 

 at Foston, hunted him down to the Decoy, and over the road towards the river, 

 and lost him. One of the worst scents I ever remember. 



T/nirsday, Kedleston, — The hounds hunted from the new Kennels at Sudbury 

 for the first time. Found a three-legged fox in the Vicar Wood, ran him to Langley^ 

 and killed him. Trotted off" to Breward's Car, found, and ran a wide ring, slowly, 

 over the hills, round by Chapel Intake, towards Hulland Ward and back by Turn- 

 ditch to the Lilies and Breward's Car, and killed. Good hunt for hounds, but a 

 vile country to ride over. 



Saturday, Wiclmor. — Found several foxes, but there was no scent, and we 



