50 MEMOIR OF 



I witnessed so glorious a run ; and you may 

 well imagine the pride I felt on finding myself 

 in such good company. I could have hugged 

 old Charlie on the spot ! And as for Will 

 Long, I looked upon him as something more 

 than mortal — a demigod in disguise." 



The Christ Church drag, consisting recently 

 of four and a half couple of hounds with a bag 

 of aniseed or a red herring for their fox, had, 

 I believe, no existence in those days — at all 

 events, I never heard Russell allude to it ; but 

 if such had existed, he certainly would have 

 been the last man to join so spurious and 

 questionable a sport. The love of orthodox 

 hunting ; the instinct of the hound in its fullest 

 development ; the science, in fact, so ably taught 

 by such men as Philip Payne, Stephen Goodall, 

 and Mr. John Codrington, had already taken 

 so strong a hold of his mind and that of his 

 contemporaries, that they were little likely to 

 swerve from the faith and fall into such a 

 heresy. 



The use of the hound for the purpose of 

 hunting a red herring was certainly never con- 

 templated by Somerville when he penned — 



"The chase I sing, hounds and their various breed, 

 And no less various use." 



No ! the poet's animated and fine verse 

 applies only, as we know, to the chase of the 

 stag, the fox, the otter, and the hare, those 



