1884] LETTERS ON THE GREAT RUN. 117 



Tliougli Artifice and Ardent 



Have led us all the way, 

 Close hunters, too, if needs reqiiire, 

 Quorn Alfred was their noted sire, 



Yet youth will have its day. 

 Landlord and Rifleman acquire 

 The lead, and full of dash and fire, 

 With hackles up, press on to head, 



No need to quest or stoop ; 

 The gorse scarce reached, his bolt is sjDed, 



They have him now — Who-whoop ! 



The master gives him to them. 



And faithful Jack is there ; 

 But of the large well mounted field 



The cry is where P Oh, where ? 

 The gallant five* shall cherish 



Of all remembrance past, 

 The Pool Fields Osiers glorious run 



As long as life shall last. 



Five-and-twenty miles of vale 



In twice an hour were done ; 

 And the pack already famous 



Still greater fame has won. 

 Their speed and staying powers 



Have stood the highest test. 

 And of all the days that sjjortsmen praise, 



We still call this the best ! 



C. M. 



I liuve a letter from Mr. Vere Allfrej, who writes that 

 he was out from Hemingford with the hite Mr. H. W. 

 Allfrey, Captain Allfrey, and Mr. Lycett (ireen, in which 

 he says that it was the only day he had with the 

 Warwickshire that year, and that when he returned to 

 America shortly afterwards, the memory of the run 

 returned to him many a time round the lonely camp fii-e. 

 He rode a horse from Ansel I's, and went well, but did 

 not get to the end. I have also a long and most interesting 



* "The gallant live" : Lord Willoughby de Broke, Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bart., 

 Mr. Lycett Green, Mr. Andrew Brand, and Jack Boore. 



