52 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1880 



down to tlie Black Covert, where scent failed. Went to the Rough, got on our 

 hunted fox, which we had evidently left there when we went through it before, 

 ran him down to Dalbury, and killed him in the road. 



Saturday, Wyclinor. — Found one bad fox, ran him up and down for half an 

 hour, and kUled him. Killed another in Mr. Lyon's covert ; the brute went out, 

 and turned short back into the hounds' mouths. Found in Smith's Hills, could do 

 nothing; the same with another fox at the back of the church. Never was out 

 on a worse scenting day. 



Monday, December 5th, Chartley. — Several foxes in Handleasow Wood, which 

 they would not leave, and at last the ground got so foiled that we came away- 

 Found in the Shaw Gorse, ran up to Birchwood Park, where hounds divided. 

 Found in Birch Coppice, ran hard for ten minutes, and killed by the keeper's 

 house. Drew the Moss, Drointon Wood, and Newton Gorse blank. 



Tuesday, Bradley. — A brace of foxes in the old Lime Kiln Covert, ran up to 

 the dingle by Miss Child's house, where our fox waited for us, ran him back to 

 Bradley Wood and on to Yeldersley Lodge. Here he doubled short back, and, 

 after running hard for twenty minutes, killed him in the open. An hour and 

 forty-five minutes from the time we first found. Found in the osier-bed at 

 Bradley Bottoms, ran into and through Brailsford Gorse, over the brook to 

 Ednaston, turned back and ran nearly to Mercaston, then bore to the right 

 through White's covert and on to Weston, and killed him in the field adjoining 

 the covert. Capital run of sixty-three minutes. 



The following printed account appeared of the next 

 day : — 



Thursday, December 9th, brought a large field to Willington, including many 

 strangers from the S. Notts., and other hunts, and amongst these we noticed, 

 besides the master (Lord Waterpark), were Lord and Lady Parker, the Hon. Mrs. 

 Colvile, Miss Nicholas, Mrs. D'Arcy Clarke, Lord Petersham, Messrs. BuUer, 

 Chandos-Pole, A. H. Colvile, Broadley Smith, W. and H. Boden, S. C. Allsopp, 

 A. Worthington, Bird, F. S. Kendall, Cumming, T. W. Evans, M.P., and a host 

 of others. The first draw was from Spilsbury's Covert, where we soon found 

 Reynard, who ran from the lower to the upper covert and back, and from this 

 point put his head straight, running across the Midland line to Stenson Wood ; he 

 got to ground under the railway, and was subsequently got out quite dead. We 

 then drew the Potlucks and the Green Covert, and then on to Egginton Goree, 

 which is partly cut down, but a fox was at home, and, after a narrow escape of 

 being chopped, he went out on the Burnaston side for Burnaston House ; and 

 here we had a check of three or four minutes, but from this he went straight, and 

 as fast as hounds could go by ■Vlickleover Asylum, down to Hell Meadows and to 

 Stenson Wood, where they killed him, the run lasting twenty-eight minutes, the 

 last fifteen very fast. It was now three o'clock, and many turned their heads 

 homewards, but the master gave the word for another draw, and finding again 

 in Mr. Ashton Mosley's covert, they had a brilliant twenty minutes to the 

 Pastures, and another beaten fox in front would most likely have met the fate of 

 his brethren in the morning, but dark coming on, hounds were whipped off", and 

 thus terminated two of the most brilliant consecutive days which have been seen 

 with the old Meynell hounds for several seasons. 



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