88 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1882 



drain — the " Squire " got a fall and put liis shoulder out. 

 It was soon put in again by Drs. Palmer and Livesay, and 

 the fox was killed close to Mr. Statham's house at Oak's 

 Oreen. 



All hounds were having wonderful sport this season, 

 and the North Stafford had a run on the 29th of March, 

 which was so good that it seems to be worth mentioning 

 on its own account, and also because it was the day before 

 the Ingestre railway accident. Mr. Power, who is no bad 

 judge, thinks it was the best run he ever saw, and it was 

 severe enough to cause the death of Charles's mare. 

 Fortunately " Red Coat " has left us an account which 

 appeared in some paper at the time, though the present 

 writer does not know the name of it. 



" Meet, Bird-in-the-Hand. Time, twelve. Dramatis 

 'personse, the noble and popular Master, the Marquis of 

 Stafford, the Earl of Harrington, Lord Berkeley Paget, 

 R. W. Chandos-Pole, Esq., Master of the Meynell, and his 

 bride ; Col. Buller, Major Buller, Capt. Buncombe, Messrs. 

 AValker, Boote, Bowers, Blagg, Fox, Hall, Power, Peake, 

 Smith, Wood, C. Leedham, huntsman of the Meynell, etc. 

 We found a straight-necked old dog fox at three o'clock, in 

 Brindley's covert, and raced away through Fradswell 

 Heath, Birch wood Park, round by Chartley Castle, through 

 Chartley Park, over the Stafford and Uttoxeter railway, 

 by Anglesea Coppice, and over a nice country to Blithfield 

 Hall, where Reynard ran close to the doors of Lord Bagot's 

 mansion, and still on through the shrubberies and Park 

 for the open country beyond. Blithbury was the next 

 point gained, a good twelve-mile point from the find, in 

 an hour and twenty minutes, and as nearly straight as 

 possible. Here there was a check, which enabled some of 

 the lucky ones to get their second horses ; but after a brief 

 respite the gallant pack hit it off again, and eventually, I 

 hear, they pulled him down somewhere (as near as I can 

 gather) between King's Bromley and Lichfield, after one 

 of the grandest and straightest runs ever witnessed. No 

 one went better than the two gallant Masters, and Mrs. 



