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have been a beau sabreur^ a colonel of dragoons. So 

 might that black-coat, who now brews good beer, 

 and stands up for the poor at the Board of 

 Guardians, and rides, like the green-coat, as well as 

 he works. That other black-coat is a county 

 banker, but he knows more of the fox than the fox 

 knows of himself ; and where the hounds are, there 

 will he be this day. That red-coat has hunted 

 kangaroo in Australia ; that one, as clever and good 

 as he is brave and simple, has stood by Napier's side 

 in many an Indian fight ; that one won his Victoria 

 at Delhi, and was cut up at Lucknow with more 

 than twenty wounds ; that one has — but what 

 matter to you what each man is ? Enough that 

 each can tell one a good story, welcome one cheer- 

 fully, and give one out here, in the wild forest, the 

 wholesome feeling of being at home among friends. 



Charles Kingsley. 



The Clerical Hunter h£> <:^ ^:> 



FAYRE for the maistrie. 



A 



An outrider that loved venerie ; 

 A manly man to bell an abbot able. 

 Full many a deinte hors hadde he in stable. 



Therefore he was a prickasoure a right : 

 Greihoundes he hadde as swift as foul of flight : 

 Of pricking and of hunting for the hare 

 Was all his lust, for no cost wolde he spare. 



Chaucer. 



King Edward VII (187 1-2) <^ <^ 



I WAS asked by Lord Charles Fitzroy to pilot the 

 Prince of Wales. I was fully sensible of the 

 honour, but felt it to be a responsibility. On join- 

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