26o Hark Away, 



Mr. W. Dickinson, of Endge ; Messrs. Henry and 

 Arthur Cramp, botli first-rate horsemen; Mr. Wil- 

 mot, Mr. Bates, who contrived to give his gallant 

 but somewhat ont-of-condition grey a good bucket- 

 ing before the day was over ; and Mr. Harris, of 

 Tunbridge Wells. 



The scene was novel and exciting ; groups of 

 well-mounted men were gathered together beneath 

 the moss-covered hawthorns and leafless oaks ; 

 keepers awaiting their masters' orders, holding the 

 hounds in leashes, each of these noble and intelli- 

 gent animals being fit to pull down singly the tallest 

 red deer. Surely, unless my vision is playing me 

 false, that is Davie Gellatley, immortalised by Sir 

 Walter Scott, with difficulty holding Ban and Buscar 

 in a leash ; the faithful, if somcAvhat eccentric, 

 servitor of Cosmo Comyne Bradwardine of Tully- 

 Veolan, who is riding the weight-carrying bay 

 horse ; whilst that fair and graceful girl on the 

 clever-looking hunter, chatting so pleasantly with 

 Waverley — the Laird of Balmawhapple looking 

 scowlingly on the while — is Rose Bradwardine. 

 But yet it cannot be, for those were personages of 

 whom the great " Unknown " wrote more than 

 '• sixty years since." There is the Marquess giving 

 instructions and making inquiries of the keepers, 

 mounted ready to single out the stag that is to 

 be pursued, and I hear them say (or imagine I do) — 

 " We can show you where he lies. Fleet of foot and 

 tall of size; We can show the marks he made. 

 When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. You 

 shall see him brought to bay. Hasten lords and 

 ladies gay." 



