NOTES TO THE 



Note 30, p. 23. 



On the stag he would have slaughter' d 

 Was his naked body bound. 



The ghost of another chasseur, whose history is given in the same 

 collection, makes the following confession : — 



"J'ai fait enchatner et river sur des cerfs plus de cent des mal- 

 heureux braconniers, les faisant poursuivre par mes chiens jusqu'a ce 

 qu'ils tombassent quelque part, et que le malheureux qu'ils portaient 

 rendit I'ame au milieu des tourmens." 



Note 31, p. 26. 



A Bedford, a Gloster, to life we restore. 



Bedford, Gloster, Nelson, and Victory were the names of hounds 

 in the Cheshire kennel. 



Note 32, p. 27. 

 Mine be the warfare unsullied with guilt J 

 "Image of war without its guilt." — Somervile. 



Note 33, p. 36. 



TTie Tantivy Trot. 



This song was written in the year 1834, at the request of Charles 

 Ford, Esq., for Cracknall, the coachman of the Birmingham Tantivy, 

 who once drove it at a sitting one hundred and twenty-five miles. 

 Some years after I saw it printed in an article by Nimrod in the New 

 Sporting Magazine, and attributed by hira to a young "Cantab." 



Note 34, p. 38. 



The tent of the Bey. 



This tent was brought by Lord Hill from Egypt. It originally be- 

 longed to the famous Murad Bey. 



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