58 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1881 



Longford Car, just as a very heavy storm of snow came on, and lost by Alkmon- 

 ton school. Very little snow, curiously enough, at Kedleston, but a great deal 

 elsewhere. 



Saturday, Drahelowe Cross Roads. — Found at Lullington, ran into the Ather- 

 stone country. Several foxes at Catton, which kept running round and round. 

 Found late at Walton "Wood, but did nothing. 



Monday, March 1th Tliatched Lodye. — Han about in the woods some time, 

 and on to Kingston Wood, and went on with a line towards Loxley, but hounds 

 could not run a bit. Very wet and stormy, and no scent. Found a vixen in 

 Carry Coppice, and ran her to ground in the pit by Blurton's farm. Did not find 

 again. 



Tuesday, Bradley.— Bid not find till we got to Shirley Park, and then could 

 not run at all. Drew Ednaston, Brailsford Gorse, Culland, Longford, and Bentley 

 Car blank, and came home. 



Thursday, WilUngton. — Found a vixen in Hell Meadows Covert and stopped 

 the hounds. Egginton blank. Found in Sutton Gorse, ran very fast up to 

 the Parson's Gorse — fourteen minutes — then on by Langley Church nearly to the 

 Nursery Covert, back to the Parson's Gorse, and killed. Twenty-six minutes and 

 a first-rate gallop. 



Saturday, Dunstall. — Found behind the house, ran round and round for 

 about an hour, and killed. Found our next fox in Mrs. Lyon's Covert, ran a 

 short ring back through the covert, then through Yoxall and Berkeley Lodge 

 nearly to Eangemore, skirted the Deanery plantation, back within a field of the 

 covert we found in, on by Holly Bank and the Whitewood, and killed in the 

 road, within fifty yards of the Yoxall Lodge Hills. Good hunting run of fifty-five 

 minutes. 



Monday, March lUh, Chartley. — Found in the Shaw Gorse, ran hard for ten 

 minutes, and then saw it was a heavy vixen, and stopped the hounds. Got on 

 the line of a fox off the Moss, hunted through the Birch Wood, and then ran 

 hard over the park back by Handleasow Wood, and lost by Gratwich village. 



Tuesday, Kennels. — All Sudbury blank ! Cubley Gorse the same. Stopped 

 the hounds from a vixen at Snelston. Found in Eaton Wood, ran by Wardley 

 down to Cubley Brook farm, and lost. Poor scent. 



Thursday, Etwall. — Found a fox in a tree by Sutton brook, ran through the 

 gorse and could make no more of it. Found in Eadburne Eough, ran very fast 

 by the Rectory down to the Black Covert, and from thence straight down to 

 Markeaton, and killed in the Ashbourne and Derby road. A first-rate gallop of 

 twenty-five minutes. Drew Markeaton, Vicar Wood, Langley Gorse, Parson's 

 Gorse, Sutton, the Spath, and Sapperton, but did not find again. 



Saturday, Bretly Mill. — Found in Repton Shrubs. No scent, ran a ring and 

 into Carver's Rocks. Found in Smith's Gorse, ran back to the Rocks, and on 

 towards Foremark, and lost. Gorstey Leys blank. Found at Calke, ran a rin 

 round the park. 



Monday, March 2\st, Kingston village. — Did not find till we got into Bagot's 

 Woods, and then stopped the hounds from two or three vixens. No scent. 



Tuesday, Walton village. — Found in Walton Wood, and ran nearly up to 

 Lullington, and lost. Did not find again. 



Thursday, Foremarh. — Gorstey Leys blank. Found in the Pistern Hills, ran 

 to Smith's Gorse, and lost. Drew Several Woods and Hartshorn Gorse blank. 

 Found in Repton Shrubs, ran to CarA^er's Rocks, and thence very fast up-wind to 

 Foremark. Ground very hard and dry, and hounds could not run at all except 

 when a fox went dead up-wind. 



