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brought the Belvoir pack to a standard of symme- 

 try and excellence far above that as far as our 

 recollection serves which we noticed under the 

 management of his predecessor in office. Goosey 

 bred many clever hounds, whose names and mea- 

 sures are dotted down in our note-book ; but 

 Goodall could show numbers equally clever, and all 

 possessing a family likeness ; in short, the last time 

 we paid a visit to the Belvoir kennels, the year 

 before Goodall's death, the pack had then attained 

 the acme of perfection. 



Tom Sebright also, who had been, when I last 

 saw him, thirty-seven years huntsman to the Milton 

 pack, obtained a world-wide reputation as a breeder 

 of foxhounds, irrespective of his talents displayed 

 in the field. Jem Hills, with the Heythrop, the 

 two Tread wells, one with Mr. Farquarson, and the 

 other for many years huntsman to the Bramham 

 Moor pack, were men deserving the confidence of 

 their masters. And in later years Charles Payne, 

 of Pytcheley notoriety, has exhibited talents of no 

 mean order, in raising that pack to a high standard, 

 which, when he first undertook their management, 

 might be said to consist of odds and ends. 



We have mentioned these huntsmen, whose con- 

 duct and character have come under our own 

 observation, to prove that there have been, and ever 

 will be, men of this class, to whom the manage- 

 ment of a pack of foxhounds may be safely 

 entrusted, even without the interference of a mas- 

 ter. It does not follow, as a matter of course, that 

 men filling such responsible situations, with credit 



