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Grove's squire^ is quite a stranger out hunting, yet you know 

 Good foxes, draw them when you may, his covers always show ; 

 Sheffield still sends us riders, a dozen horsemen quite, 

 But (with other well-known faces) we miss most the gallant 

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To one^ in scarlet on a bay we feel incUned to holloa 



Oh sir, you look so very nice, but where, oh where's your collar? 



This other* on a chesnut, one merrily salutes 



With parody of well-known song, "Where did you get those 



boots ? " 

 True sportsman of the good old school 5, no better judge of 



horses. 

 His hunter's back, we all regret, he now so seldom crosses ; 

 But mounted on black "Peter," a lady^ holds her own, 

 And "J.G.B.'"' good rider he, though checked by fifteen stone. 

 This house seems quite forsaken. Where's the Master,^ is he ill? 

 Given up his horse for roses ! ! poor exchange thinks Gateford 



Hill ; 

 From his farm not many miles off, "George"^ still rides his 



chesnut mare, 

 Come to see them find in Trancar, for he knows a fox is there. 



On roan and grey from Worksop, Father ^^and Daughter start, 

 He wisely takes a safe back seat, she plays a leading part 

 Curvetting round upon a bay. Would he go if hounds ran ? 

 Not far ! you'll find this lawyer ^^ is a very careful man. 

 An hour late from Tickhill, though not at all concerned, 

 A ponderous sportsman ^^ wanders up, and thinks his port is 



earned ; 

 Carlton's lady^^ won't be beaten, seated on a gallant grey ; 

 WaUingwells^* is represented, and young HaU still rides the 



bay. 

 The chesnut horse from Hesley'-^ may still be sometimes seen, 

 From Rossington till Xmas, comes out two riders i** keen ; 

 Steetley sends a hardy horseman, with sayings full of pith. 

 Fords may be deep and banks too steep, but what cares 



Sydney Smith. 



r 'E. H. Vernon. "G. Machin. 



*Sir H. Watson. '°T. Gouldesborough. 



'S. Roberts. ' 'H. S. Hodding. 



*G. K. WUson. '*Major Todd Naylor. 



^ *H. Beevor. "Miss Shaw. 



"Miss Ellison. "'W. Jessop. 



•J. G. Beevor. '*B. J. Whitaker. 



'H. V. Machin. "R. and Miss Streatfield, 



