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Anthony Trollope, who was also a foxhunter, and has 

 already been mentioned, and Mr. Charles Buxton, who 

 came from Surrey to join Sir Fowell Buxton and other 

 relatives, in ridinq' with the staghounds in the style of 

 the family motto, " Uo it with thy might." Mr. Charles 

 Buxton's life of his father gained from Mr. Hampden 

 Gurney the high praise that he would put it into a boy's 

 hands next to the Iiible. Whereupon the Saturday Rcviezv 

 asked whether the old invocation might not be thus 

 amended: "Matthew, Mark, * Luke, John, and Charles 

 Buxton, bless the bed that I lie on." 



In 1867 Mr. Charles Buxton had a bad fall, and lay 

 long in a darkened room, suffering from concussion of 

 the brain. Whilst there he described the run in which 

 he fell in the following verses :— 



The Staghounds. 

 1. 



Forrard away ! Forrard away 



Cheerly, ye beauties, forrard away ! 



They flash like a gleam o'er the upland brow, 



They flash like a gleam o'er the russet plow, 



O'er the green wheatland, fair to see ; 



Over the pasture, over the lea. 



Forrard away — forrard away ! 

 Cheerly, ye beauties, forrard away ! 



