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CHAPTER XL 



THE HOAR CROSS COUNTRY AND MR. MEYNELL 

 INGRAM'S HOUNDS. 



Very nearly half a century has passed 

 away since Mr. Meynell Ingram, with all 

 the heritages of his highly-renowned ances- 

 tor, first became a master of foxhounds, 

 though it is to be regretted that for several 

 years he has not been able to participate in 

 the sport he so dearly loves, and which he 

 so liberally supports. On another occasion, 

 when describing the primitive arrangements 

 for hunting the Atherstone country, under 

 the influential mastership of Mr. Osbaldeston, 

 it was mentioned that he had only occupied 

 the Sudbury district a brief period, which 

 threw open a wider and finer scope for 

 Mr. Meynell Ingram's enterprise than that 

 with which he had a year or two previously 



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