THE BADMINTON HOUNDS 



good for them when the day's amusement was 

 over. 



The two countries necessitated a strong pack of 

 hounds. In the chapter on the Badminton hunts- 

 men I have given a sketch of WilHam Long as a 

 man and as a huntsman. Long was Badminton 

 born and bred. He was a first-rate kennel hunts- 

 man, and one of the men who, with Goosey, Goodall, 

 the Smiths, Dale of Brocklesby, and Frank Gillard, 

 are entitled to be ranked among those who have 

 made the modern foxhound what he is. To the 

 story of this book Long is of great importance, as 

 from him the eiofhth Duke received his first ideas 

 of hunting and of hound lore. 



Long, when he took up the duties of huntsman, 

 thought the hounds good, but his predecessor, Payne, 

 in his love for bone, had doubtless bred them rather 

 coarse. Payne indeed was an ardent disciple of the 

 Lord Lonsdale of that day, whose servant he had 

 been, and in striving for substance he had perchance 

 missed something of quality. But he had left some 

 splendid strains of blood, and notably the famous 

 Justice, which is, thanks to Mr. Surtees and the 

 "amazin' pop'lar man," better known to the general 

 reader than any other hound of the time. 



Long set to work to breed the pack finer, and 

 faster, for he loved to see hounds run away from 

 the horses. As a man who had hunted with 

 the Oxford undergraduates pressing on his heels, 

 and the kindly Dukes of Beaufort as his masters, 



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