n^alfeiug a puppu. i6i 



The brave fortune favours ; and surely that holloa 

 Has rais'd the hounds' heads — though well meant, 

 I daresay, 



But rustics will yell — and di fresh fox hounds follow. 

 And thus our red rover is spar'd for to-day. 



The cream of the thing, though but short, is now over; 



Too short — but delightful as country and speed 

 Could now make it — a ring nearly back to the covert ; 



A brief twenty minutes we're fully agreed. 



Hounds only drag'd on to the earths by the Station 

 Of Crick, or of Kilsby, or both, I know not; 



But men who were ''there'' say, without hesitation, 

 A faster score minutes ne'er fell to their lot. 



WALKING A PUPPY. 



ID you ever walk a puppy? No! Well 

 then, as you certainly ought to assist your 

 energetic M.F.H. by doing so, and doubt- 

 less purpose adopting such a course when the kennel 

 cart next goes its rounds with the juveniles, you will, 

 perhaps, permit me, who have walked many, to give 

 you a few hints as to their diet and management, 

 as well as to make some remarks upon their eccen- 

 tricities. 



