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Going away from there, they ran through the top of 

 the long plantation in the Park. At the pit-hole beyond, 

 the fox was in the same field with the hounds ; had they 

 got a view he must have died. As it was, they changed 

 near Newton village and ran on through Coley to Shug- 

 borough, and lost him. Time, one hour, and a seven-mile 

 point ; very fast up to Blithfield. So ended a wonderful 

 week's sport, for both Monday and Tuesday were a long 

 way above the average. 



On January 6th, after a meet at Osmaston, they had a 

 first-rate gallop from Boden's Thorns. The first forty 

 minutes was very fast. They ran a wide ring over the 

 Trusley brook up to Radburne Rough, and back to the 

 Thorns. Away again, without dwelling a moment, across 

 the brook again, up to Dalbury Woodhouse, right-handed 

 by Dalbury, recrossed the brook, ran by the Duck-pit to 

 the Great Northern Railway, and lost him by the Potlucks 

 near Mickleover — a capital hour and ten minutes. 



Then came another hill run, of which " X," whose pen 

 was kept busy this season, has left us an account, with a 

 mention also of a previous one. 



Field, January 25th, 1896 :— 



THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



The Meynell have had several remarkable runs this season, visiting outlying 

 parts of their conntry where hounds are seldom seen — for instance, on Thursday, 

 2nd inst. (Mercaston Stoop). The dog pack found their fox in a small spinny 

 below Flower Lilies, left Cross o' th' Hands and Hulland on the right, Bradley 

 on the left, over an upland gi-ass-line to Kuockerdown, Carsington, and Hopton, 

 a gradual ascent of six hundred feet in nine miles ; then turned right-handed to 

 near Alton Manor, where he was lost, after eighty minutes without a check — one 

 of the best hill runs that memory can recall. 



Monday, 20th, from Brailsford Bridge, the sun shining brightly and no wind ; 

 tlie two Ednaston coverts, Car and Alder Car, were drawn blank, but as soon as 

 hounds were thrown into the osier-bed at the junction of Spinnyford and Bradley 

 brooks, their waving sterns showed that a fox was not far oft". The first music 

 we heard was Albert's " Gone away ! " at the Bradley end. The dog pack got 

 away on excellent terms, and drove him in a straight line midway between Bradley 

 and Hulland to the Lime-kiln Rough at Bradley — a three-mile point in twenty 

 minutes ; he did not enter the Rough, but passed the top end, and boldly faced 

 the steep hillsides of Atlow Whin, taking the exact line of the great run of 

 January 29th, 1894. Most of the heavy weights dismounted for the steepest 



