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THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



hounds came to the one slight check, caused by the line being foiled by sheep 

 over the brook. Hitting it off forward, they ran well to the Durable, between 

 Cubley and Bentley, crossed the lane close to Bentley Hall, and very fast along 

 the Bentley brook to Stydd Hall ; we naturally thought Holly Wood was his 

 point, but probably the bitch pack were pressing him too closely up-wnd, as, 

 when within a few fields of the covert, he turned sharp right-handed, and crossed 

 the road between Edlaston and Yeaveley ; then leaving Rodsley Gorse and village 

 on his left, he was viewed only one field in front of hounds, crossing the Booth 

 Hay Farm. Longford Car was in front, and he just managed to reach that 

 sanctuary, where he saved his brush in a friendly rabbit-hole at 5.20 p.m., just 

 sixty-five minutes after leaving Bentley Car. Hounds ran fast throughout the 

 eleven or twelve miles, with only the check of one minute, and the way the bitch 

 pack turned with their fox, even when he was twisting his worst, was a treat to 

 witness. Falls were numerous. Mr. Fort, the field master, came down, and, 

 although the horse appeared to tread all over him, rose none the worse. Mrs. 

 Charrington (I think the only lady who lived through the run) also had a fall ; 

 Charles had a spill, but was soon righted ; and it would perhaps be superfluous 

 to add that throughout the run no one was nearer hounds from first to last than 

 Charles Leedham. 



X. 



The new names in the subscription list were — E. 

 Caldecott, Foston ; E. Heseltine ; J. F. Lort Phillips and 

 the Hon. Mrs. Lort Phillips, Old Park House, Radburne, 

 vice Captain and Mrs. Dugdale, gone abroad; R. R. 

 Micklethw^ait, Needwood House. 



p]NTERED IN 1895. 



