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THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 

 ENTEKED IN 1S98— continued. 



[1898 



* Mr. Lawley, Draycott. f Mr. Gould, Tutbury. J Mr. H. Bass. 



WITH THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. (October 31st, 1898.) 



It was under circumstances of peculiar interest that the Meynell Hunt 

 assembled at the time-honoured fixture at Sudbury. The old order had 

 changed, and every one was anxious to see the outcome of the new. No 

 fault could be found by the most captious critic with the condition of the 

 hounds, nor with the appearance of the horses ; in fact, competent judges 

 pronounced the latter to be equal to those of any hunt in the kingdom. 

 It seemed strange to miss Charles's burly form from the centre of the picture, 

 and other faces too were absent which we have been wont of late years 

 to associate with the opening day of the Meynell. Still, there was a goodly 

 muster, which included the Master, and Mrs. Fort, Colonel the Hon. W. Coke, the 

 doyen of the Hunt, Mr. and Lady Florence Duncombe, Lady Mosley, the Misses 

 Mosley, and a large party on the Rolleston coach driven by Mr. Hartley, Captain 

 Dugdale and the Misses Dugdale, Captain and Mrs. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. W. 

 Boden, Mr. and Mrs. H. Charrington, Major Phillips, Mr. Boden and Miss Boden, 

 Messrs. Caldecott, Kempson, Holden, Brace, Hon. G. Allsopp, Peacock, Ratcliff, 

 and many others. 



The first move was to the Lake Banks, when the well-known ditch eu route 

 afforded the usual diversion. After some delay a fox was on foot and 

 eventually broke away in the direction of Doveridge, but soon turned short back 

 and was killed in the same covert where he was found. Sudbury Bottoms was 

 then drawn, and furnished a fox, which made for Sudbury Coppice. Hounds 

 soon forced him out, and he went away across the Oak Lane in the direction of 

 Cubley, but swung to the left by Malcolmsley, nearly up to Marston -Montgomery. 

 He then turned to the left across Bigg's Lane up to the road from Marston to 

 Somersal, near Soraersal House, where he was lost. It was an enjoyable hunt. 



