Listening how the hounds and horn 
CUeerly rouse tle slumbering morn, 
From the side of some hoar hill 
Thro' the high wood echoing shrill." MILTON. 
N various old writers " The Mayster 
of the Game," for instance we find 
lively pictures of the ancient English 
chace, which in many respects, no 
doubt, was of a more noble and 
r (,-1 manly nature than that of the present 
day. The wolf, the bear, the boar, 
were among the favourite beasts of 
" venery ; " and none can doubt that the habit of pur- 
suing such animals, independently of giving vigour 
to the frame, and strength to the constitution, must 
have nourished that martial ardour and fearless in- 
trepidity, which, when exerted in the field of battle, 
generally won the day for our gallant ancestors. The 
hart, the stag, the hind, the roebuck, and the hare, are 
