282 TJie Pytchley Httnt^ Past and Present. 



MR. DANIEL. 

 To speak of Misterton and omit the name of ^'^ Daniel/' 

 would be equivalent to leaving out from a play one of its 

 most conspicuous characters. 



"Misterton" and "Daniel" run so much in couples in 

 the thoughts of Pj'tchley-men, that to separate the two 

 seems an impossibility, and it will be a bad day for 

 hunting whenever the dissociation takes place. A 

 yeoman of the good old school — from his youth a 

 hunting-man — to few of the tenant-farmers of the district 

 is the " P.H.'^ more indebted for a constant and un- 

 swerving support. 



'* Daniel's Spinney " is a name little less familiar in the 

 ear of the Wednesday follower of Will Goodall and his 

 pack, than that of Misterton Gorse or Shawell Wood ; 

 and many is the gallant fox that has been found within 

 its shelter. 



With a keen eye for make and shape, and with much 

 experience, there are not many better judges of a hunter 

 than Mr. Daniel^ and very few men better able to ride 

 one. 



MR. P. A. MUNTZ. 



In the same neighbourhood is to be found one of those 

 stout-hearted sportsmen, to whom a superabundant 

 vitality seems to be no detriment in the matter of getting 

 across a country, and upon whom " pace and plough " 

 seem to lose their hindering properties. Mounted upon 

 cattle of great value, but in whom power is often more 

 apparent than pedigree — horses of a different stamp 

 from those ridden by those famous men of weight, 



