2 2 The PytcJiley Htnit, Past and Present, [chap, i. 



to Wood as to themselves. His stjle^ in every sense of 

 tlie word, was * impressive/ He put them at any things 

 generally fastish. That he had them at his will in an 

 extraordinary way, I infer, as I can safely say that I 

 never saw a horse refuse with him. He had a fine voice^ 

 knew his business to a T^ and was one of the civilest 

 beings living." 



Mr. Cook of Hothorp, the purchaser of the high- 

 priced '^Lancet/' without being a great horseman, w^as 

 always well in the front and did not know what it was 

 to let another man pound him at any place. Lords 

 Jersey and Plymouth were both first-rate men to 

 hounds, and hunting from Market Harbro' did not 

 w^aut for opportunities to try and cut down either 

 Quorn or Pytchley thrusters as occasion offered. Mr. 

 Peter Allix, afterwards M.P. for Cambridgeshire, was 

 one of the rough-and-ready school, who meant going, 

 and never failed to carry out his purpose. Not at 

 any time having the fear of a bullfinch before his 

 eyes, be it ever so thrusty, he earned for himself the 

 nickname of '^ Scratchface." He afterwards kept a 

 pack of harriers in the neighbourhood of Newmarket, 

 and showed a g-reat deal of such sport as may be got 

 out of the pursuit of '^ poor puss." His brother. 

 Colonel Allix of the Grenadier Guards, who, like his 

 brother, hunted from Brixworth, was noted for being 

 one of the three handsomest men in London. Anxious 

 to see as much as he could with a stud not overlarge^ 

 his maxim was, never to keep the horse out long who 

 was expected to come out often. His return home, 

 therefore, was usually at an earlier hour than most of the 

 field; but should there have been a run during the time 



