Brother as Superintendant of his Game.  He hunts a Pack of Dogs better than any Man in the Country, and is very famous for finding out a Hare.  He is extreamly well versed in all the little Handicrafts of an idle Man:  He makes a May-fly to a Miracle; and furnishes the whole Country with Angle-Rods.  As he is a good-natur’d officious Fellow, and very much esteem’d upon account of his Family, he is a welcome Guest at every House, and keeps up a good Correspondence among all the Gentlemen about him.  He carries a Tulip-root in his Pocket from one to another, or exchanges a Poppy between a Couple of Friends that live perhaps in the opposite Sides of the County. Will. is a particular Favourite of all the young Heirs, whom he frequently obliges with a Net that he has weaved, or a Setting-dog that he has made himself:  He now and then presents a Pair of Garters of his own knitting to their Mothers or Sisters; and raises a great deal of Mirth among them, by enquiring as often as he meets them how they wear?  These Gentleman-like Manufactures and obliging little Humours, make Will. the Darling of the Country.

Sir ROGER was proceeding in the Character of him, when we saw him make up to us with two or three Hazle-Twigs in his Hand that he had cut in Sir ROGER’S Woods, as he came through them, in his Way to the House.  I was very much pleased to observe on one Side the hearty and sincere Welcome with which Sir ROGER received him, and on the other, the secret Joy which his Guest discover’d at Sight of the good old Knight.  After the first Salutes were over, Will. desired Sir ROGER to lend him one of his Servants to carry a Set of Shuttlecocks he had with him in a little Box to a Lady that lived about a Mile off, to whom it seems he had promis’d such a Present for above this half Year.  Sir ROGER’S Back was no sooner turned but honest Will. [began [2]] to tell me of a large Cock-Pheasant that he had sprung in one of the neighbouring Woods, with two or three other Adventures of the same Nature.  Odd and uncommon Characters are the Game that I look for, and most delight in; for which Reason I was as much pleased with the Novelty of the Person that talked to me, as he could be for his Life with the springing of a Pheasant, and therefore listned to him with more than ordinary Attention.

In the midst of his Discourse the Bell rung to Dinner, where the Gentleman I have been speaking of had the Pleasure of seeing the huge Jack, he had caught, served up for the first Dish in a most sumptuous Manner.  Upon our sitting down to it he gave us a long Account how he had hooked it, played with it, foiled it, and at length drew it out upon the Bank, with several other Particulars that lasted all the first Course.  A Dish of Wild-fowl that came afterwards furnished Conversation for the rest of the Dinner, which concluded with a late Invention of Will’s for improving the Quail-Pipe.