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The \'erses s^o on to describe how " ;i Ijnive lookinj^ 

 stag ' was roused, and ran southward to the Thames, 

 where "his fears made his courage recede," and he was 

 taken at East Ham, in the garden of Dr. Fothergill. The 

 worthy doctor — 



" Begged for the life of the deer. 

 " The favour was granted, the buck cart in view, 

 We drew the faint beast from his lair. 

 And sent him to Hale End, to join with the crew, 

 Once more in their comforts to share." 



Within a few years of the sale of Mr. Mellish's hounds, 

 we find a pack of staghounds again established at Wan- 

 stead House, which had become the property ot Mr. 

 Tilney Long VVellesley, through his marriage with the 

 heiress of the last Earl Tilney. This gentleman was 

 immortalised by the well-known line in " Rejected Ad- 

 dresses," " Long may Long Tilney Welle.sley Long Pole 

 live," and we have some recollection of an epigram attri- 

 buted to Lord Beaconsfield :— 



" Let spacious Wanstead House, well known to fame 

 Resound Long Tilney Wellesley Long Pole's name, 

 But he's not even fit to black your boots, 

 Burdett Coutts Ashmead Bartlett Burdett Coutts." 



Mr. Wellesley kept forty or fifty hunters and hackneys, 

 and hunted the countr\ in magnificent style. His hounds. 



