The Pytchley, and Charles Pavii. 257 



It was a fourteen-mile point, and considered so- 

 good a run that I was requested to write it out for 

 the annals of the Pytchley Hunt. 



I well remember Charles Payn's speaking of 

 diggmg out foxes ; — like Mr. Arkwright, he did 

 not care for leaving them after a good run — ► 

 he said that there was a drain between two 

 hunts, at which, by agreement, neither party 

 used to dig. After a time there arose a necessity 

 for opening it all through and laying it afresh,, 

 and when the drain was taken up thirteen masks 

 of foxes which had died in it were found there ! 



Charles was a loss to the Pytchley country 



when he went into Wales ; it was a case where 



two suns could not shine in one firmament, Captain 



Thomson being one and Charles Payn the other. 



Although he had a good place, financially, with 



Sir Watkin Wynn, he liked the Pytchley better. 



I once went to see him at Wynnstay, and saw the 



crack dog Painter ; he was very smart, but of a 



bad colour, and too effeminate in appearance ; I 



saw others in the kennel which I liked better. 



In the Pytchley Charles had a good sort in the 



Pillagers ; he used to say that they were so good 



and honest, and he left fifty couples of hounds in 



the Pytchley kennel which would run nothing 



but a fox. 



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