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the Park. In the second week in November hounds were 

 again at Bretby, when they ran to Carver's Eocks, on to 

 Calke, turned to the left, entering Robin Wood on the 

 Melbourne side, and killed their fox on the edge of the 

 lake at Foremark. I noticed a young man in scarlet 

 leading a grey horse about while hounds were breaking 

 up their fox. The man was Walter Boden, and the horse 

 was Grayling, bought from Will Haslow. 



" In those days the hounds came to the Donington side 

 of the Trent one day a week, and sometimes two days, 

 meeting at Catton, Drakelowe, Foremark, and Bretby. 

 The farmers then were all staunch fox-preservers, riding 

 well to hounds, and giving us a hearty welcome. Capital 

 sportsmen they all were. Two days a week with the 

 Meynell was not enough for them, but they must needs 

 have Lord Stanhope's harriers over their land as well, 

 with their followers, to knock down what little of the 

 fences the Meynell had left. Nothing gave them more 

 fun than to find a hare by the river side and to run her 

 along the meadows, over the big ditches, up to Robin 

 Wood, and hares always did make that way. There 

 were two or three brooks in the line, and the farmers 

 would gallop to them to see what disasters would ensue. 

 There were two families of yeomen, in particular — the 

 Newbolds and — for the life of me I cannot remember the 

 other. I wonder if any representatives of them are hunt- 

 ing still, who have sat and listened to their fathers' stories 

 of the sport they had, and of how they showed us the way, 

 as they did often enough. 



" In the sixties the supporters of the Meynell Hunt, 

 who not only provided foxes for us, but also participated 

 in the sport, were Lords Chesterfield and Stanhope (from 

 Bretby), the late Lord Bagot, Mr. Michael Bass, the 

 Marquis of Hartington, Mr. H. Evans, of x'Vllestree ; E. S. 

 Chandos-Pole, the present Squire's grandfather ; Mr. H. 

 Boden, of Ednaston ; Sir Thomas Gresley, Peter Colvile, 

 of Lullington, a most amusing man, with a ready 

 tongue ; Sir Henry de Vceux, Sir Francis Crewe, of 



