No; a couple of short, light, active men--say from five-and-twenty to thirty, with bow-legs and good cheery voices, as nearly of the same make as you can find them.

I shall not give them large wage, you know; but they will have opportunities of improving themselves under me, and qualifying themselves for high places.

But mind, they _must be steady_--I'll keep no unsteady servants; the first act of drunkenness, with me, is the last.
'I shall also want a second horseman; and here I wouldn't mind a mute boy who could keep his elbows down and never touch the curb; but he must be bred in the line; a huntsman's second horseman is a critical article, and the sporting world must not be put in mourning for Dick Bragg.

The lad will have to clean my boots, and wait at table when I have company--yourself, for instance.
'This is only a poor, rough, ungentlemanly sort of shire, as far as I have seen it; and however they got on with the things I found that they called hounds I can't for the life of me imagine.

I understand they went stringing over the country like a flock of wild geese.