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asked if the hounds liked Payne, replied, " They 

 hate him ". The hounds were capital in chase, but 

 with a bad scent they did not half get on, and bumbled 

 about like pointers. 



Payne had a pretty considerable idea of his own 

 importance. On being asked who the new master 

 was to be, he said, "It don't matter, if he has plenty 

 of money — I can manage the hounds ", He had 

 perquisites of all sorts, .^130 wages, ^10 for 

 clothes, £c) for drugs, £(^ for milk for the puppies, 

 bones, hides, and draft hounds, and silk lashes and 

 thongs for whips, every quarter. 



On going into the kennel one morning I noticed 

 that there was no sign of milk in the trough in which 

 the puppies were fed. On speaking to the feeder, 

 he said, " They do very well without milk if the 

 flesh is fresh ". When I met Payne I said, " Charles, 

 how much milk had the puppies this morning ? " 

 " Milk, sir ; oh, sir, not much, sir." " But how 

 much ? — a gallon ? " "A gallon, sir, no, sir, not a 

 gallon." "Well a quart?" "No, sir, not a quart, 

 sir." " Had they any ? " *^ No, sir." " Why not ? " 

 " Please, sir, my cow has not calved." " Very well ; 

 I will have a cow of my own. Let me know what 

 you consider the amount you receive altogether." 

 He gave me a memorandum amounting to ^260. I 

 said, "You have put it rather too high. I will give, 

 you £1^0 and no perquisites of any sort — everything 

 belongs to me." He accepted this. 



I bought a little Welsh cow and put it into the 

 kennel-field. Some time after my wife went to visit 



