232 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1897 



of a gallop in the open, so we trotted a couple of miles to Mr. Morris Richardson's 

 beautiful little new gorse at Kingstanding, wliere a couple of foxes were at home, 

 and after a little bustling one faced the open, but was soon run into, Jackson's 

 Bank was then the order, and as hounds got near the Brakenhurst (which, owing 

 to the strict preservation by the Hon. Mrs. Meynell Ingram, is a great stronghold 

 for foxes), they were soon in full cry, and giving their fox no law, they ran 

 into him in ten minutes. Hearing a halloa away on the Park side, " Charles " 

 lost no time over his dead game, but galloped away, and had his hounds on the 

 line at once, and gave us one of the best runs of the season, going over the small 

 inclosures below Hoar Cross Church, on to Birch Wood, where a slight check 

 gave us a chance ; but hounds soon got the line again, and without any hesita- 

 tion, went straight by Bromley Park, Hart's Coppice, over Bagot's Park, to the 

 Parkside Gate, into the open to Floyer's Coppice, as if for Loxley Bank, but at 

 Scounslow Green our good fox changed his mind, as if he preferred Woodford 

 Rough for a shelter, but leaving it on his left, he took us over Smallwood Manor, 

 and back to Buttermilk Hill, where hounds, though close to him,'were at fault for 

 a few minutes, but soon on to his line again. Over the earths here, they ran him 

 by the end of Dogkennel Wood, into Bagot's Park, where he saved his brush by 

 crawling into a hollow oak tree. An hour and a quarter over a fine hunting 

 country, nearly all grass. Hounds never raced, but kept going at what one may 

 call " music pace," and at the finish horses were all a bit cooked, and chanced 

 the gaps. Two kills, and five to ground in one day, in February, has never 

 occurred before in my hunting experience. A unique day for the ten who saw 

 the last run. 



Hawk-Eye. 



New names ou subscription list : J. H., L. A., and D. 

 Carlisle, Hound Hill, Marcliington ; Colonel Cotes, Petch- 

 ford Hall, Shrewsbury (third year) ; W. W. Elsom ; Wm. 

 Howie, Foston ; Capt. Johnstone, The Carabineers ; Capt. 

 W. T. Holland, Hollyhurst, Barton-under-Needwood ; 

 W. Mills, Densy Lodge, Sudbury, vice T. Kempson, gone 

 abroad ; T. E, Mousley, Fair Oak House, Rugeley ; A. 

 Payne-Gallwey, Castle Hill, Bakewell ; L. W. Jelf Petit, 

 Lichfield ; Capt. Roy, the Barracks, Derby ; H. J. C. 

 Smith, the (Carabineers ; Col, Spilling, Oak Cottage, Sud- 

 bury ; C. C. H. Stepney, Quarndon ; W. T. Wailes, Black- 

 wall. 



On Wednesday, March 25th, Sir Peter Walker's Point- 

 to-Point races were held. " The Meynell Red- Coat Race," 

 says the Field, " attracted sixteen runners, and resulted in 

 the victory of Mr, Power's Monte (owner), nominated by 

 Mrs. W. Boden, while Mr. W. D. Winterbottom's Lady 

 May (Mr. Walter Schwind), nominated by Mrs. Winter- 

 bottom, was second, and Mr. G. Crompton's Brer Rabbit 



