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And unless for all sorts of strange fences prepared, 

 A horse and liis rider are sure to be scared. 

 'Tis variety gives constant life to the chase. 

 But as Forrester (50) says, "Sir, what kills is the pace." (5 1) 

 In most other countries they boast o£ their breed, 

 For carrying, at times, such a beautiful head ; 

 But these hounds to carry a Head cannot fail, 

 And constantly, too, for by George ! there's no Tail. (52) 

 Talk of horses and hounds, and the system of kennel, 

 G-ive me Leicestershire nags and the hounds of Old 

 Meynell. 



By Me. Lowth, 



Memoib of the Mastership of the Fifth 

 Duke of Buccletjch, 



WALTER FEANCIS MONTAGU DOUGLAS SCOTT, 



Born 1806; Died 1884. 



His Grace, in 1824, when eighteen years of age (with 

 the consent of his guardians), bought the hounds of Mr. 

 Baird, of Newbyth (grandfather of the present Sir 

 David), who continued to manage them until his Grace's 

 majority in 1827, in which year he took up the country 



50. a gentleman who practically explains all the above accomplishments, 

 to the great edification of young horses and the no less astonishment of weak 

 minds. 



51. A favourite maxim of Mr. Forrester's, of the truth of which he seldom 

 loses an opportunity of endeavouring to make his friends thoroughly sensible. 



52. As heads and tails are here not to be understood in the common 

 acceptation of the words, and as all ladies are not sportswomen enough to be 

 aware that they have no reference to the human head or tail, they should 

 know that, when you can "cover the hounds with a sheet" (which any Mel- 

 tonian will explain to them more particularly), they are then said to carry a 

 beautiful head. When (on the contrary) they follow the leader in a line, like 

 a flight of wild fowl, they are then said to tail. 



