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end so soon, and he was afraid some people had been a Httle too impatient when 

 luck had failed the huntsman. The latter had proved that, when he had a 

 straight-necked fox with a scent, he and his hounds were equal to the occasion, 

 and that they could not only run, but could race their fox down and kill him. 

 Mr. Shipton concluded with good wishes for success to Stephen in the future. 

 (Stephen asks the editor to be allowed to return his very best thanks to those 

 ladies and gentlemen who were not present on Thursday at Radburne, but who 

 subscribed to the handsome gift.) Hounds then moved off to draw the Eadburne 

 coverts, and found a fox in Pildock Wood, who led them, at a good pace, to 

 the Rough, where he got to ground. While they were drawing the last-named 

 place a snowstorm came on, which, added to the hurricane which kept blowing 

 all day, reached the acme of discomfort. Now that the whole field was drawn 

 up in one place, one could not fail to be struck by its numbers, augmented as 

 they were by a large contingent from Cheshire. The huntsman-elect had come 

 with them, and, report says, expressed surprise at the smallness of the field. 

 After the Rough a move was made for Parson's Gorse, and a fox jumped in 

 the field just outside it, and was hunted as far as Kirk Langley. In drawing 

 Meynell-Langley Gorse, they found him, or another, and he ran much the same 

 line as before, nearly to Parson's Gorse, but, turning left-handed, was lost in 

 Langley village. Then came a long jog to Sutton Gorse, a mangy fox, and a 

 little dart out across the brook (which a few bold spirits jumped, while the 

 majority crossed by a ford), to the road just this side of the Rough. Here the 

 fox was headed by a second horseman on the road, and doubled back along the 

 brook in the direction whence he had come. But this was discovered too late to 

 be of any use, so the fox was ost, and a bad scenting day came to an end. 



Saturday, Anslow. Found in the Henhm-st, ran two rings back and forth, 

 and lost. Found in Rangemore Gorse, ran nicely to Sinai Park, where scent 

 failed utterly. A fox from Byrkley Gorse was just lost outside Rangemore, and 

 one from Yoxall took them to Hollyhurst. 



THE MEYNELL ENTRY, 1900. 



March 18th 



March 5th... 

 March 5th... 



May 25th ... 



Albion \ 

 Arnica j 

 Artful \ 

 Arsenic 1 1 

 Artifice / 



Finder] 



Fifer J 



Marl- 

 borough 

 Marker 



Marksman 

 Pageant 

 Parody 

 Pai-tial 



=1 



Tynedale 

 Albion 



Warwick- 

 shire Fireman 



Tynedale 

 Albion 



Pytchley 

 Pageant 



Vestal 



Chastity 



Muslin 



Whimsical 



Walked bt Messrs. 



Poyser, Mickleover. 



Archer, Scropton. 

 I Collier, Draycott. 

 \ Plant, Cubley. 



Hawks worth, Bar- 

 l ton. 

 [Goodall, Cubley 



Stoop. 

 [Harrison, Cubley. 



Wainwright, Boyle- 

 i stone. 



, Wainwright, Boyle- 

 / stone. 



Hunii)hrey, Cubley. 



i Robinson, Brereton. 

 Miles, Tatenhill. 

 Tunniclifif, Hilton. 



