82 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



A lesson to Sportsmen — take warning from hence — 

 How much safer to ride, than turn over a fence ; 

 For the Chesnut, indignant at being led over. 

 Threw him flat on his back — not exactly in clover ; 

 Nay, to tread on his master the rascal made bold, 

 And gave him a bath most bewitchingly cold ; 

 And what's worse, after playing this dev'lish rig. 

 Of the water he took such a terrible swig. 

 That tho' Reginald mounted as soon as releas'd, 

 He could never get up till the sport had all ceas'd. 



On Michaelmas mounted, somewhat in the rear. 

 Sailing steady along see AUesleys great Peer ; 1 

 Now his Lordship asserts, and 'tis true without doubt. 

 That a nasty stone wall, with a ditch, threw him out j 

 Besides, Goulburn, his crony, declares it's the case. 

 And avows that he stopp'd at the very same place. 



Jack Ketch, too, with very uncommon forbearance. 

 At the close of this run never made his appearance j 

 And tho' HoLYOAKE 2 gave him much legal assistance. 

 Was kept by the hounds at a very great distance. 

 'Tis strange, you will say, that Jack Ketch should be dropp'd. 

 Who the pipes of so many, of course, must have stopp'd ; 

 But alas ! it is true, even he wanted breath. 

 And for once in his life, was not in at the death ! 



1 Lord Clonmell, well known as an ardent Sportsman, who 

 frequently rode twenty miles to cover in the morning, before the 

 hounds threw off. 



2 Mr. Holyoake, of Tettenhall, Staffordshire. This p^entleman 

 generally joined the Warwickshire during the hunting season, and 

 was a true Sportsman. 



