72 HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS. 



Danbury's fair Common sends a Captain who's 



"Rash"— 

 I'm afraid he will say I have written real trash, 

 For of sportsmen and sport he knows well how to write, 

 Of his huntings descriptions we oft have a sight. 



I must close up my tale with the Hunt Secretary, 

 Who constantly says the subscriptions do vary. 

 In his love for the sport to no man he yields — 

 He hopes for subscriptions and jolly large fields. 



WHO-WHOOP! 



CONCLUSION. 



The first of my series of Hunting Recollec- 

 tions is finished, but I hope, if you have not 

 found the present volume very tedious, you will 

 have patience, and remember how trying is the 

 day on which one resumes hunting at the begin- 

 ning of the season. One is unused to saddles 

 and clothes, and even the horses show an un- 

 pleasant mixture of laziness and bumptiousness. 

 We are none of us sorry to find the day is over, 

 but when the business becomes a little more 

 familiar again, it is quite a different thing, and 

 so I hope the next volume will not be so irk- 

 some, and scent will improve as the season 

 advances. 



