35^ Silk and Scarlet. 



and they would hear his peculiar yapping note right 

 away by himself, when nothing else would speak. 



He did not get clever dog-hounds, but Mr. Musters 

 had twenty couple of Pilot bitches by him when he 

 gave up the Pytchley. According to his contract, he 

 proposed to leave another twenty couple for the 

 country, when he finished in the April of '27 ; but 

 " The Squire " would not deign to accept them. Mr. 

 Musters continued to breed from Lord Yarborough ; 

 and with some eight-and-twenty couple of hounds in 

 his kennel, Bunney Park to draw, and Baronet to ride, 

 he was as happy as a boy to the last, and brought his 

 eighteen brace a season to hand. His dog pack were 

 about twenty-three-and-a-half in height, and as steady 

 as they could be ; but the bitch pack were rather wild. 

 Nine couple of the best were selected for the latest 

 picture that was painted of them, with himself on 

 Baronet ; and poor Markwell on a brown mare, and 

 Humphrey Pierce on a chestnut sire, were the servants 

 who were grouped on the canvas with that undisputed 

 king of gentlemen-huntsmen. 



Lord Chester- When Lord Chesterfield had the 

 field. Pytchley country, with Will Derby as 

 huntsman, he bred considerably from Belvoir Rasselas 

 and Splendour. The latter had come to Brixworth 

 as a draft hound through Mr. Errington, from whom 

 his lordship bought the pack ; and like Pilot, he drew 

 by himself, and was a great hound for going through 

 gorse. Tyrant by Sir Richard Sutton's Woldsman 

 was, however, the pet of his lordship's fancy, and 

 when he had done with him he gave him to Sir Tatton. 

 On one occasion they found a brace of foxes in an 

 osier-bed at Misterton, and all save him went to the 

 one who broke on the Lutterworth side ; but his lord- 

 ship had the hounds stopped, and put to the fox which 

 Tyrant brought out by himself ; and they killed it, 

 after a great run, near Flecknoe. 



Mr. Tilbury, with a truly prophetic eye, asked Sir 



