viii ■ The Wynnstay i^dck. 



game has failed. If Goodall will only take to heart the 

 lessons that he has learnt since he left the Meatli, we maj 

 yet see him a huntsman of no mean repute. 



Sir Watkin found the hounds certainly not so even. 

 or with so much cry and dash as under Walker's regime 

 but he has made hounds his study from his earliesi 

 school boy days, and he whipped-in to his friend Eowland 

 Hunt's Trinity Beagles, so that I do not doubt that he will 

 persevere in the right track here, never forgetting, I trust, 

 that nose, tongue and sense must be served, and thai 

 •without these essentials no pack of hounds in such a variec 

 countiy as his is, can hope for a general run of gooc 

 sport. I have heard it said that for several years Sh 

 Watkin' s hounds have not been noted for tongue, but this 

 1 do know, that when crossed with the Welsh hound, as 

 they were by the late Mr. Eobert Luther, so long Master oi 

 the United, their tongue and drive are magnificent. I wel 

 recollect a big, light-coloured hound called *' Wellington ' 

 that Walker gave to Luther ; he was very deficient in tongue 

 himself, but his blood did wonders with Luther's ligh1 

 bitches, and few, if any of them, were silent. It would b( 

 treason, I fear, to advise a dip back into United blood, jus1 

 by way of trial, and yet I have not the slightest doubt bul 

 that the result would be of great benefit to Wynnstaj 

 sport. Sir Watkin has opened his Mastership with some 

 wonderfully good sport, as these notes will show. I have 

 not had so many opportunities of sharing in it as could 

 have been wished, and have often been obliged to b( 

 indebted to friends for my accounts of runs, and the scraps 

 of sport I have picked uj). Nobody is heartier thar 

 Borderer, however, in wishing Sir Watkin and Lad^ 

 Williams Wynn a long unbroken spell of happiness in theii 



