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Title: The Pytchley Hunt : past and present, its history from its foundation to the present day; with personal anecdotes, and memoirs of the masters and principal members; including the woodlands; also unpublished letters of Sir F.B. Head, bart.,
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Nethercote, H. O Carrington, Charles, 1897-1990 Head, Francis Bond, Sir, 1793-1875
Subjects: Pytchley Hunt Horses
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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d conditions ofmen ^ at his Northamptonshire home at Arthingworth,and his accession to even a moiety of the Mastership ofthe P.H.^^ was hailed with universal satisfaction.Ranking among the welter weights, and never ridinghorses of the very highest class, he nearly touched customer point, and when hounds were carryingahead, never failed to occupy a forward place. Gonsti-tutionally delicate in health, he was compelled somewhatsuddenly to decline hunting soon after assuming a shareof the responsibilities of Mastership ; and on Mr. Villiersobjecting to continue in office by himself, the countryonce more was compelled to look about for a Master. GOL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON. When the Chelsea Seer declared that the population otEngland numbered 30,000,000 mostly fools/ he alsodivided them into two classes, natural fools, and d—dfools; the former being fools who are such by no faultof their own, fools congenital, so to say—the latter fools,in spite of knowing that they are such. To no one be-
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Col. Anstruthe7^ Thomsons Mastership. i6y longing to either of these sections of the human race isit possible to undertake the management of a pack ofhounds with any hope of success. A knowledge of mankind, womankind^ and dogkind—command of temper—graciousness of speech—and athorough knowledge of how to say ^ no ; coupled witha willingness to say yes ; ^^—ample means, united to agood acquaintance with economic principles, are onlypart of the qualifications necessary to form an idealM.F.H. No wonder that many of this pattern are notto be found; but one such sat in his study one Februarymorning of the year 1864, and perused the followingletter from an old and dear friend. Wootton Ball. Feb. 26th, 1864. ^My dear Jack,—Under the influence of a ripping fiftyminutes over grass, up wind, and all just as it ought to be,I write you a line as a feeler about our country. I have onlyjust heard that you have really given up the ^ Fife.^ Iknow your habits so well that I am quite sure that

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