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be a Master of Muggers for no manner of 

 money/' 



Such, however, were not my ideas on the 

 subject, so I set to work to buy a pack from 

 Scotland. Then various Masters of Hounds gave 

 me a few small bitches which were hardly big 

 enough for them to enter as foxhounds. Among 

 others, Mr. Lycett Green kindly gave me five 

 couples of beautiful animals from the York and 

 Ainsty, some of them with Belvoir blood. I had 

 to draft a good many of the Scotch lot before I 

 could get them to the size and sort which I fancied, 

 but at last I arrived at about fifteen couples, all 

 bitches full of quality, and standing exactly 20 

 inches high. 



The first man I had as kennel huntsman was 

 Will Wootton, who came with the lot from Scot- 

 land, and I used to hunt them with him and a 

 second horseman (in green coats and caps) to 

 whip into me. After him a young fellow named 

 Charles Greenhow took his place ; and then in 

 later years, Tom Champion from the Woodland 

 Pytchley (a son of the huntsman whom I recently 

 mentioned), a capital hound man and a nice 

 fellow to go out with, who remained with me 

 as long as I kept the harriers. 



We had plenty of country, lots of grass for 

 miles round Norton Conyers, and many good 



