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THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



ENTERED IN 1S89— continued. 



[I89e 



Dogs, 8| couples; bitches, 7 couples. Total, 15| couples. 



There were two rather famous hounds in this year's 

 entry, viz. Mentor and Weathergauge. The former 

 hunted till his ninth or tenth season, in fact, till Charles 

 Leedham resigned. As he was then to go with the draft, 

 Charles thought the old dog was his, and gave him to the 

 present writer, who intended to send him to his friend, 

 M. de Manduit, to improve his Brittany hounds. But 

 the fates ruled it otherwise, and poor old Mentor was 

 knocked on the head. Weathergauge by Milton Weather- 

 gauge did the pack a great deal of good service, both in 

 the field and at the stud. For no hound could have been 

 better in his work, and his daughters crossed so well with 

 Colonel's sons. He broke his leg late in life, but it 

 mended bravely, and he came out again. It was a very 

 odd thing, but when Charles was unable to hunt on 

 account of his sister's death, in 1896, he sent the old dog 

 out with Stephen Burtenshaw, so that he might have one 

 hound he could rely upon, and Weathergauge, for the first 

 time in his life, never did a hit of work the livelong day. 



