394 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1877 



about for a long time, and had our fox dead beat, but he got into a tree by 

 Henry Tumor's house. 



Tuesday, Foston.—FomiA below the house, ran towards Sudbury, turned 

 back by Aston, and killed him in the Lemon Hole. Found again at Foston, ran 

 about the coverts, and left our fox — a vixen. Found at Sapperton, and lost 

 immediately. No scent at all. Cubley blank. Found in Eaton Wood, ran 

 through the Birch Coppice, down over the brook, by Wardley and Marston Park, 

 nearly to Cubley Gorse and on to Snelston, and lost in a storm — very good forty 

 minutes. 



Thursday, Foremarh. — Hunted a fox twice round Gorstey Leys, when he 

 went away and ran down to the river by Swarkestone, which he crossed, and 

 was killed within three fields. Foxmd in the covert by the Pistern Hills, ran to 

 Several Woods and back, and nearly down to Calke, and gave up. 



Saturday, Kingston. — Found in the wood, ran a ring by Woodcock Heath 

 and back into Bagot's Woods, where we remained for the rest of the day. Earths 

 open, and foxes got to ground as they liked. 



Monday, March l^th, Eanhury. — Found in the Hare Holds, ran through 

 the Cupandition Covert to Needwood, and on through Byrkley Lodge to Range- 

 more, where we lost. Knightley Park blank. Found in the Henhurst, ran all 

 along the meadows by the canal side to Dunstall. Got on a fresh fox in the 

 covert in the meadows, hunted him through Smith's Hills, and to ground in a pit 

 beyond. 



Tuesday, Sudbury. — Drew the whole of the place blank. Found at Sap- 

 perton, ran up to Sudburj^, and lost. Got on a fox that was on the move on our 

 way to Eaton Wood, hunted her (it proved to be a vixen) about, and left her. 

 Found in Eaton Wood, but could not run a yard. No scent all day. 



Thursday, Kedleston village. — Found in the young plantation in the hollow, 

 and ran fast into Breward's Car, rattled him about in covert, and ran him back 

 to Ireton Wood, where we lost in a heavy snowstorm. Found a vixen in 

 Langley Gorse, and took the hounds away. Went to Eadburne. Found in the 

 Rough, but there was no scent. Left a heavy vixen at Sutton. 



Saturday, Bagot's Parle. — Found in Hart's Coppice, ran through the woods 

 to the Warren, very fast, back into the woods, over to Newton, into the woods 

 again, and finally marked to ground in the Warren Covert. Time, two hours. 



There is an account in the Field of two days, the 

 Saturday just mentioned and the following Monday, 

 which seems worth inserting here. It was after the brook 

 in the Monday run that hounds ran clean away from 

 every one. Mr. Godfrey Meynell was the first man over 

 it, dropping his horse neatly over a rail into the water 

 and out again. Mr. Walter Boden followed him, but 

 hounds were out of sight then. 



