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This Grey he can't hold, though his hand is not weak, 

 And his bit you may see has a very long cheek ; 

 But if the first flight he can't keep in his eye, 

 To be thereabouts he will gallantly try. 



Now, leaving the crowd, our attention we fix 

 Upon two knowing sportsmen, both riding with sticks ; 

 The first so renowned on the turf, Squire France, 

 Who on his young Milo will lead them a dance. 



The next is John Glegg, and I really don't brag. 

 When I say no one better can ride a good nag ; 

 A good nag when he has one, I mean — by the bye, 

 Do you know who has got one ? he's wanting to buy. 



Now racing along with the foremost you see. 

 Quite determined to go, Charley Ford, on the Pea ; 

 This moment ecstatic, this joy of the chace, 

 His regrets for old Paddy can scarcely efface. 



For Walmsley on Paddy has just now past by. 

 And on him poor Charley has cast a sheep's eye ; 

 But ne'er mind, for no pleasure's without its alloy. 

 And some day you'll again have a good one, " my boy." 



Who's that ? I can't see, by " his figure I know, tho'," 

 It can be no other than Hammond ^ on Otho ; 

 If practice makes perfect, he's nothing to fear, 

 For his nag has been practised for many a year. 



Going straight to the hounds, never known to cast wider. 

 Now comes little Rowley,^ the steeple-chace rider ; 

 Harry Brooke his antagonist, quiet and steady, 

 And Stanley^ who always for business is ready. 



Then there's Squire Harper, whom some may call slow, 

 But I've seen him ride well when he chooses to go ; 

 Little Jemmy ^ comes next, and of danger shows sense. 

 From the back of Surveyor, surveying the fence. 



' James W. Hammond, Esq., of Wistaston. 



• Rowland Egerton-Warburton, Esq., of .^rley. 

 = Hon. W. O. Stanley. 



* James Tomkinson, Esq., of Davenham. 



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