148 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1888 



be impossible. Candid criticisms and re-organized and 

 representative committees, according to the latest theories 

 of reform in county government, may be good so far as 

 they go. But the Meynell has gone on very well without 

 them for many a long year, and the moral of this unfortu- 

 nate business — for most unfortunate it is — would seem to 

 be that, when the Hunt has got a good Master, it should 

 trust and follow and even humour him, if it can only keep 

 him, and that it is better ' to bear those ills we have than 

 fly to others we wot not of — better, in fact, to have an 

 almost autocratic M.F.H., if he is a good one, than to harass 

 him and drive him away with threats of what may be told 

 him as to four or six days' hunting by a ' representative 

 committee,' whose first duty, apparently, will be, not to 

 re-organize the Hunt, but to preserve it from threatened 

 disruption and the openly expressed hostility of the farmers. 

 Mr. Chandos-Pole leaves this country with the universal 

 good wishes of all whose opinion is worth having, and we 

 can only hope that a popular Master, and the dropping of 

 all carping with the management, and tinkering with the 

 constitution of the Hunt, will prevent further disasters — 

 otherwise the reformed committee will have only themselves 

 to reorganize. But we confidently hope that, by a little 

 conciliation all round — a forgetting of difierences, and a 

 return to the good old traditions of the Hunt — the Meynell 

 will once more be as popular as ever, and it is with that 

 desire that we have pointed out weak places, and issued a 

 warning note to any whom it may concern." 



In another paper the following appeared : " Mr. 

 Chandos-Pole' s resignation of the Mastership of the 

 Meynell hounds came as a surprise to many of the sub- 

 scribers, who attended the meeting in Derby on Tuesday 

 to elect a newly constituted committee. Of course, it is 

 no secret that for some time past there has been a little 

 friction between Mr. Chandos-Pole and some members of 

 the Hunt, although very little of the dispute has been 

 made public. Two years ago Mr. Chandos-Pole bought a 

 pack of hounds in Ireland, and brought them into the 



