148 WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. 



Unto the Scullion, all the cook 

 By choice or chance may overlook ; 

 Grease, matches, coals, and candles good. 

 Fagots, and billets of dry wood. 



And that no varlet may repine. 

 To labourer Tom I give the swine, 

 Snouters collected at great pains : 

 With all the stock of swill and grains. 



Mr. Dixie has been represented as a noble specimen 

 of the fine Old English Foxhunter. He was a Sportsman 

 of great experience in the Field, a bold and good horseman, 

 and, from a stud selected with great care and judgment, 

 always appeared at the covert side on a nag of the right 

 sort to carry him well up to the hounds through the hardest 

 day. The warm benevolence of his heart, and the bland 

 sincerity of his manners, gave dignity to his station as a 

 private country gentleman 3 and whether presiding at his 

 own hospitable board, or sitting at the table of a friend, we 

 may safely infer from reading ' The Will,' that he was a 

 boon companion — one who, by facetious observation or 

 witty remark, was often ' wont to set the table in a roar.' 



The above ' Will ' has for some years been read from 

 manuscript for the amusement of private and select com- 

 panies. The whole of the parties alluded to are now no 

 more, and this is the first time, we believe, that it has been 

 permitted to appear in print. 



