Master oj the Pytcldey Hunt. 133 



and bought some more at the sale. The hounds 

 had physic; and as he wished to give them cub- 

 hunting in Sywell Wood on the next day, he 

 asked Lord Chesterfield's men- — Deny, Goddard, 

 and Jones — to go with them ; which they pro- 

 mised to do. But they changed their minds 

 in the course of the night ; and when he went 

 to the kennel early in the morning, they told 

 him they could not go with the hoimds, as 

 they were Lord Chesterfield's servants. This 

 was, in the language of diplomacy, ^'an unto- 

 ward event;'' but the new Master had met 

 with and surmounted as great difficulties be- 

 fore, and he resolved to show the fellows that 

 he could do without them. He told old Hayes 

 the feeder, and Moody a helper in the stable 

 — ^who, as he knew, had occasionally ridden a 

 second horse — to get ready to go with the 

 hounds ; and then went back to his lodgings, 

 where he put on his red coat, and filled his 

 pockets with bread and biscuit to throw to the 

 hounds on their way to the covert. As he 



