388 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1876 



Monday, Beremher 18/l/i, Brakelowe C7-oss Roads. — Caldwell and Lullington 

 blank. Found a bad fox at Catton, which got to ground. Did not 6nd again. 



Tuesday, Bradley — Blank. Found at Shirley Park in a thick fog, and lost 

 sight of the hounds at once, and never saw them again till we found them at 

 Okeover bridge. But, as far as we can find out, they must have run by Rodsley 

 and Snelston down to Clifton, where they crossed the railway, and ran by Mr. 

 Bond's house up to Hanging Bridge and on to Mappleton. Tremendous scent, 

 and hounds were over the hill from Shirley Park and out of hearing in no time. 



Thursday, Etwall. — Found at Egginton, ran by Burnaston over the road 

 almost down to Stenson Fields ; here the fox was headed in the lane and turned 

 back, and we hunted him up to Mickleover, and killed him in the village. "Went 

 to Radbume, but the only fox in the Rough had been gone ten minutes, and we 

 could not hunt him. Drew the Parson's Gorse blank. Found in the Reeve's 

 Moor at Longford. Ran by HoUington nearly up to Shirley village, turned to 

 the right up to Ednaston, crossed the Derby road and left the Oak Covert, 

 Ednaston, on the right, down to the newly planted osier-bed in the bottom ; here 

 we turned to the right as if we were going to Brailsford Gorse, but bore to the 

 left and came to a check in the lane by Mercaston Stoop. Thirty-two minutes 

 as hard as hounds could run, and the distance seven miles. Here a boy gave us 

 wrong information and saved the life of this good fox, for by the time we had 

 got on his line again he had gone into Breward's Car and the scent failed. 

 First-rate day's sport. Earths open. 



Saturday, (Jhartley. — Frost. 



Monday. — Christmas Day. 



Tuesday, Katon Wood. — Frost. 



Thursday, Brailsford. — White's Covert, the gorse, and Culland blank. 

 Found in Longford Car, ran towards Shirley Mill, turned to the right by 

 Ednaston village down to the Culland Plantations, on by Culland Hall and 

 Burrows to Radborne, where our fox got to ground in a broken-in drain within 

 two fields of the Rough, Just an hour. Got on a fox that had slipped away 

 from Sutton, ran a ring by the village up to Trusley Gorse, and back to the 

 gorse, and gave it up. Very little scent. 



Saturday, Loxley. — Found in the Park Covert, ran a short ring out towards 

 Kingston, and back, on by Bramshall almost to Uttoxeter, where he turned back, 

 and we hunted him slowly on, and marked him to ground in Woodford Rough. 

 Earths open there. Found again by Buttermilk Hill (Bagot's Woods' side), 

 liunted about in the Banks and lost. Found in the Dog Kennel Wood, hunted 

 round and round for one hour and killed. 



1877. 



Monday, January \st, East Lodge. — The Henhurst and the Oaks blank. 

 Found in the covert by the village at Rolleston, ran nearly down to Stretton, and 

 lost. Dove Cliff" osier-bed under water. Found at Needwood, ran through 

 Kingstanding, over Hollybush and Agardsley, into the Banks by Woodroft'e's 

 Cliff. Capital gallop and fast. After this, hunted slowly along the Banks and 

 through Dog Kennel Wood, and finally lost in a very heavy storm of rain, not 

 far from Hollybush, our fox evidently making his way back again. 



Tuesday, Sudbury Coppice. — Found and hunted, with a bad scent, through 

 the Bottoms, and over the Park towards Sapperton. Held the hounds on to the 

 covert and got away with a fresh fox, and ran up to Longford Car, on from here 

 to Shirley Park, where we must have changed foxes. Hunted on to the Ednaston 



