THE EIGHTH DUKE OF BEAUFORT 



sense, he recognised this fact, and one day he as- 

 tonished the Duke by a request to be allowed to 

 return to his old place. The Duke consented, 

 and John Dilworth was consequently appointed to 

 be huntsman. This man was a capital huntsman in 

 the field, but in the kennel he was not so successful, 

 and the quality of the pack soon declined. How- 

 ever, he too served as long as he could, and in the 

 end retired with a pension. 



Then came Philip Payne. The following story 

 suggests that under his predecessor kennel discipline 

 as well as kennel management had been somewhat 

 defective. Philip Payne used to tell how, after 

 he was installed as huntsman, he was preparing to 

 walk the hounds in the park, when the whippers in 

 appeared in the kennel loaded with couples. " What 

 are these for ? " ** To put on the hounds, sir," and 

 the whippers in went on to explain that they were 

 accustomed to couple up the hounds when exer- 

 cising in the park, for fear of their running riot 

 among the deer. " Stuff and nonsense," was Philip's 

 reply ; " they won't run the deer while I am with 

 them." And so it proved, thus adding one more 

 evidence to the truth, that if you trust your hounds 

 they will both trust and obey you. On Philip 

 Payne's career it is not necessary to dwell further. 



His successor was William Long, the most 

 famous of all the Badminton huntsmen. Few 

 men have excelled him as a horseman, as a 

 breeder of hounds, or as a huntsman in the field. 



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