1897] HUNT MEETING. 237 



lie could resign. (Hear, hear.) It mattered very little to 

 him (Lord Harrington) who was the Master, but he did 

 like fair play (applause), and for a number of men to elect 

 a man to a position, and for a portion of that number to 

 vote him out again, was not fair play. (Hear, hear.) 

 There had, no doubt, been a certain amount of grumbling 

 in the Meynell Field of late. There were some people 

 who thought they ought to have a run every day, and also 

 that they ought to be able to run after every fox ; but 

 these were young men, who, if they only kept their eyes 

 open and their mouths shut, and gave the hounds a little 

 fair play, would have a much better chance of getting 

 their wish. Any one who remembered the Meynell 

 Hounds when Mr. Bass took them would agree with him 

 that they were at a very low ebb indeed. The hounds to- 

 day were as good a pack as there was in the country. 

 (Applause.) They were the best pack of hounds he had 

 ever seen in their work in the field. This had been 

 brought about by Mr. Bass, who had taken a great deal 

 of trouble to bring the hounds to perfection, and had 

 spent a great deal of money upon them. To Mr. Bass 

 they owed a great debt of gratitude (applause), and it 

 would be most ungrateful and most uncourteous to vote 

 him out of his present position without giving every soul 

 in the Meynell Hunt an opportunity of recording his 

 opinion. He trusted that nothing that was said that 

 afternoon would give offence to anybody, or raise a feeling 

 of discord in the Hunt. (Hear, hear.) They must all 

 remember that whoever was elected Master he would not 

 give satisfaction to everybody, and he had pleasure in 

 proposing, " that the resolution passed at the last meeting, 

 accepting Mr. Bass's resignation, be rescinded." 



Mr. White, as a tenant farmer, seconded the resolution 

 with the greatest possible pleasure, feeling, as he did, that 

 Mr. Bass had been very badly treated. He maintained 

 that what was done at the last meeting of the Hunt was 

 not in order; that the question of the Mastership was 

 not on the agenda, and that the whole matter ought not 



