278 MEMOIR OF 



Mr. Collyns, to whose able and graphic 

 work on "The Chase of the Wild Red Deer" 

 the writer is beholden for so much information 

 on that subject, thus alludes to Mr. Bisset : 

 "The sport has now the countenance and 

 support of the landlords and the enthusiastic 

 good wishes of the farmers. Mr. Bisset knows 

 how to take tlie command of a pack and of a 

 country ; and hunting as he does on the most 

 improved principles, observing the rules from 

 which in days of yore no sportsman ever 

 deviated, having his deer carefully harboured, 

 drawing with tufters and not with the pack, and 

 so avoiding the danger of destroying deer out 

 of season or unwarrantable, I liave no doubt he 

 will find the owners of coverts continue to rally 

 round him as they have done ; and that, if it 

 should be our good fortune to keep him amongst 

 us, he will again re-establish the sport and place 

 it on such a footing as to make it vie with that 

 which our forefathers witnessed, and the history 

 of which thev recounted and handed down to 

 their sons and sons' sons with pride. Woe be- 

 tide the stag which the present pack pursue ! 

 Well may he tremble when he hears the twang 

 of John Babbage's horn, and catches the sound 

 of his able coadjutor's, Arthur Heal's, shrill 'hark 

 together,' as he cheers the eager hounds on their 

 quarry. Not all his wiles, his fieetness, or his 

 cunning, can save him from his well-trained foes." 



