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Old friend and ally ! to bid thee ' Good bye ' 



Is a struggle I long have deferred ; 

 Though the day is far spent, and the warning is sent, 



It chokes me to whisper the word : 

 But if mute thou must be, and Time's iron will 



The die o£ the future has cast, 

 In the depths of my heart thou'lt be eloquent still. 



While memory clings to the past. 



Ah no, we'll not part ! As the Romans of old 



Their Lares were wont to adore, 

 Near my own fireside thou shalt ever preside, 



To warn away Care from my door : 

 There still thou shalt tell of mountain and fell, 



And many a far-away friend ; 

 And ever to me thy presence shall be 



A relic of joy to the end. 



E. W. L. Davies. 



A LIST OF MASTEES OF THE QUORN 

 HOUNDS. 



I SCARCELY know if it is allowable to call hounds " the 

 Quorn " that were kept elsewhere than at Quorn, but as 

 the hounds that hunted Leicestershire have been 

 quartered in various kennels at different times, I shall 

 take leave to begin my list with — 



Thomas Bootliby, Esq., of Tooley Parle, Leicestershire, 

 lorn 1677; died\1^2. 



His death is recorded in the GentlemarCs Magazine for 

 August, 1752, as follows : " Thomas Boothby, of Tooley 

 Park, Leicestershire, Esquire, one of the greatest sports- 



