EI)e Carter of a ^pur. 



scarcely nod her farewell as she disappeared amongst 

 the autumn leaves, ere I found that I had now myself 

 double duty to perform in urging the little sluggard 

 Jem bestrode to make the most of such capabilities as 

 a not very notable ancestry had transmitted to him. 



Yonder raced the fleeting pack, with Charlie sailing 

 along alone in their wake, and if it had not been 

 for me, and that fortunate bridle road, Jem certainly 

 would never have caught them. We, however, did 

 get to them after a stern chase of some twenty 

 minutes, though only just in time to see the relentless 

 little ladies roll over as fine a cub as ever was seen, 

 within half a field of the hedgerow earth in which 

 he was bred. 



Alas! that was the last "whoo hoop" I ever heard; 

 for the loss of the partner of my former joys but too 

 surely brought my hunting career to a sadly abrupt 

 conclusion. Farewell to you, my help-mate ; I have 

 often thought of you since, and wondered as to your 

 fate. Perhaps you are still lying, and may for ever 

 lie, in yon shaded dyke, undiscovered or disturbed ; 

 'or I again sometimes think that a more honourable 

 future may await you, and that, perhaps, one of your 

 descendants, good reader, may, in years to come, find 

 and cherish her as a quaint old relic of the past ! 



But to return to my own doings. Well, whether 

 I was purloined by that boy or not I cannot say, 



