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second Baron, who was known as the hunting lord, and 

 who started the Sudbury Hounds mentioned in the begin- 

 ning of the first volume of this work. 



To return to the sport of the season. It was not very 

 good in November, about the best day being on November 

 22nd. They had a good gallop from Foston, just touching 

 Sudbury Park, and killing their fox by Church Broughton 

 Brickyard. In the afternoon they had a good ring from 

 Potter's. 



On December 6th poor old Tom Leedham died, 

 respected and regretted by every one, and on the 10th, 

 when hounds were advertised to meet at CJhartley, they, 

 of course, remained in kennel, as it was the day of his 

 funeral. The following gentlemen followed him to his 

 grave: Sir M. A. Bass, Bart., M.P. ; Mr. L. K. Hall, 

 Hollybush ; Messrs. T. Keats and Flint, Uttoxeter ; Arm- 

 son, Yoxall ; Turnor, Bagot's Park ; Whiteley, representing 

 Mr. M. T. Bass ; Shore, Rangemore ; Statham, Sudbury, 

 etc. 



On Tuesday, December 11th, they met at Mercaston 

 Stoop, and had a nice gallop in the afternoon from Meynell- 

 Langley Gorse, by Derby Workhouse, left Mickleover 

 Asylum on the right, ran nearly to Hell Meadows, then 

 right-handed, past Burnaston House, almost down to Etwall 

 station, where they lost their fox. 



On December 19th, the Squire carried the horn, and 

 they had a capital day from Shirley Mill, on a Wednesday, 

 and ran well from Hell Meadows to Radburne the next 

 day, and killed. 



Reminiscences of Forty Years with the Meynell. 



" My very first day with the Meynell hounds was at 

 Bretby, on October 20th, 1856. There were present 

 Lords Chesterfield and Stanhope, Lady Evelyn Stanhope, 

 Tom and Jack Leedham, Hugo Meynell Ingram, Tom 

 Beale, Lord Chesterfield's stud groom, and Mason, hunts- 

 man to Lord Stanhope's harriers, which were kenneled in 



