The late Sir Waikin. 



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'Wyimstay, who from his earliest youth determined upon 

 iteeping a regular pack of foxhounds, after the type of 

 Sir Richard Pulestone. Mr. Leech on the Garden side of 

 country, Mr. Mytton and Sir Rowland Hill on the 

 Shropshire side had kept the ball rolling in succession to 

 Sir Richard since 1833, but Mytton was too fond of bag- 

 men, and Mr. Leech hunted after an eccentric fashion. 

 Sir Watkin was hardly of age before he bought the Garden 

 ipack, and being a soldier in the Household Brigade, he 

 asked his friend, Mr. Attey, of Light wood Hall, to take 

 charge of them, which he did for two seasons. It is a 

 matter of history, .how, when he sold out of the Guards, 

 ,he made judicious purchases of homids, engaged John 

 Walker from the Fife country (the successor there of 

 Tom Grane), as his huntsman, and formed in 1845 what 

 has always since been known as the Wynnstay country. 

 I am now treading on living history ; there are few of us 

 but have experienced the excellence of Walker, both as a 

 huntsman and a judge of hounds, and know how long and 

 .faithfully he served a worthy master ; and how he was 

 followed by an equally accomplished huntsman, if not so 

 • great a houndman, in Payne from the Pytchley, and 

 how his reign nearly equalled that of Walker, while in his 

 retirement ha has survived his Master. Stephen Goodall 

 took his place for the last two seasons of the late Sir 

 , Watkin' s life, and although he came with a great 

 reputation from Meath, and belonged to a celebrated family 

 of huntsmen, he failed to win his^ way at Wynnstay. 

 No easy matter to follow such men as Walker and Payne. 

 vGoodall is yet young ; he has many excellent points in 

 which he should excel as a huntsman, and Borderer is the 

 last man to wish to injure one, who, in flying at very high 



