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Mrs. Payne, and seeing the cow in the field, she said, 

 " You are more fortunate than I am, Mrs. Payne, for I 

 have not yet got a cow." " Oh, it only makes 4 lb. of 

 butter a week, and I don't think it's no better nor lard." 



I engaged Dick Roake as first whip ; he had 

 been second horseman to Mr. Tailby. He was a 

 most respectable, well-educated man. He was a fair 

 horseman, but not a very strong man. He was very 

 attentive and worked most loyally with me. Harry 

 Jennings was second whip. He was a fair horseman 

 and a steady, good servant, but he had a nagging 

 way with hounds. Payne said, ''He was a worriting 

 fellow". But he liked him so well he took him to 

 Wynstay when he went there. 



At the meeting in May, 1 864, it was settled that 

 I was to keep a huntsman, and hunt four days a 

 week. That the subscription was to be ^3,000 

 per annum ; rents and repairs of the kennels to be 

 paid by the country. Captain Clerk took charge of 

 the covert fund. In July I made an amended offer 

 that we should hunt five days a week, and I should 

 receive one-half of the surplus subscribed over and 

 above the ^3,000. At last it was settled that we 

 should hunt five days a week ; Payne to hunt three 

 days in the open, and I should hunt two days, one 

 in the forest on Tuesday and Saturday alternately. 



It was necessary to get some more hounds. I 

 got a draft from Lord North, Warwickshire ; Tom 

 Mathews was his huntsman. A draft from Lothian, 

 Alexander Kinloch and David Baird, masters ; 

 John Atkinson, huntsman. A good many of the 



