HUNTING SONGS 



XIII 



The rules of hard riding let ToUemache impart, 

 How to lean o'er the pommel and dash at a start ; 

 Emerging at once from a crowd in suspense. 

 How in safety he rides who is first at the fence. 



XIV 



How with caution 'tis pleasanter far to advance 



Let them learn from De Tabley, Tom Tatton, and 



France ; 

 Who void of ambition still follow the chace, 

 Nor think that all sport is dependent on pace. 



XV 



Twin managers ! tell them, Smith Barry from Cork, 

 And Dixon, who studied the science in York, 

 Though we boast but one neck to our Tarporley 



Swan, 

 Two heads in the kennel are better than one. 



XVI 



Let Entwistle, Blackburne, and TrafFord disown 

 Those Lancashire flats, where the sport was un- 

 known ; 

 Releas'd from St. Stephen's let Patten declare 

 How fox-hunting solac'd a senator's care. 



XVII 



Let the bones of the steed which Sir Philip bestrode 

 'Mid the fossils at Oulton be carefully stow'd ; 

 For the animal soon, whether hunter or war-horse. 

 Will be rare in the land as an Ichthyosaurus. 



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