104 COVEKT-SIDE SKETCHES. 



and the pack. His first whips were Will Goodall, a son of 

 the celebrated Will, who is now hunting the Pytchley. 



The duke himself has not been seen at the covert- side so 

 often as his friends could wish, on account of ill-health, but is a 

 sportsman to the back-bone, and nothing makes him so angry 

 as to see a fox killed unfairly. Gillard once told me that 

 they ran one to ground in a drain ; he got hold of him, and, 

 finding he was already dead, threw him amongst the hounds. 

 " I thought the duke would have horsewhipped me," said 

 he ; " he was so angry until I explained that he was dead. He 

 thought I wanted to kill him unfairly." That was when he 

 was whip there. 



