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Leedhams, they were all natural horsemen. Tom was very 

 fine indeed, only excelled by Jack, who was one of the 

 prettiest I ever saw. The Derbyshire country, up to 1872, 

 was hunted only one week in each month. The kennels 

 were at Kedleston inn, now a residence. On Tuesday 

 hounds were on the north side, on Thursday in the Rad- 

 burne, and on Saturday in the Tutbury district. 



"Foxes were nothing like so well preserved then as 

 now. In the spring you might draw from Brailsford to 

 Egginton Old Gorse, where the sewage farm is now, before 

 they found. There never was such a country for foxes 

 lying out in hedgerows. When the late Hugo Meynell 

 Ingram died, and Lord Waterpark and William Clowes 

 took them, we had three years' wonderful sport — no day 

 without a run. During the seventies and eighties the 

 fields began to increase, especially in Derbyshire, and the 

 standard-bearers were the Bodens, Clowes, Edward Coke, 

 Dick FitzHerbert, Legard, and Bird. Arthur Lyon, of 

 Clownholme, and the two elder FitzHerberts, were wonder- 

 ful amongst the older ones. I am not sure if Miss Mildred 

 FitzHerbert was not even better than her father. She 

 was wonderfully good. 



" When Lord Waterpark gave up, ' Squire ' Chandos- 

 Pole took them, and we had capital sport. It is difiicult 

 to say whether that of the three years of the Waterpark 

 and Clowes's Mastership, or the first three years of the 

 Squire's, was the best ; but, in my long period with the 

 Meynell, these stand out pre-eminent. Just take a few 

 runs in the later one — from Rolleston to Radburne, for 

 instance. They found in a tiny little spinny, and away 

 they went across the river by Dove Clifi". We had all to 

 go round. I think Bird was the first man to catch them, 

 and that was not till they got to Bearwardcote. From 

 there they went through the Potlucks to Radburne Rough, 

 where Charles stopped them, only Bird and Grossman 

 being with him. Another time they ran from Rolleston to 

 High Trees, Bagot's Park. But there were no end of good 

 runs. 



