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(3) A Shift of the Scene. 



The brook stares us in the face. The huntsman's grey is 

 landed — not very well— but on the right side. The squire is 

 pulling himself out as he best may, having been left, like 

 Moses, in the bulrushes. The parson goes like a man, clear 

 over his head, the thistle-whipper has lost start, and the rest 

 of the field, in various positions, but only thirteen in sight, 

 look very determined to make the best of a bad thing. 



(4) Whohoop! 



In bolder notes 

 Each sounUing horn proclaims the felon dead. 



The hounds are clamouring for their due, the parson is 

 evidently entitled to the brush, and we may add, that the 

 thistle-whipper is nowhere to be seen. 



The following works were published by R. Acker- 

 man n : — Foxhunters, four plates, i2| inches by 8| 

 inches ; Hunting Qualifications, six plates printed in 

 colours, I of inches by 85 inches ; Thoughts ivhile 

 Fox Hunting, six plates, ii\ inches by 83 inches, 

 printed in colours. 



In an advertisement of " Standard Sporting 

 Prints," published by Ackermann, occurs a series 

 of eight coloured plates, 20^ inches by 12^ inches, 

 drawn by W. L. Hodges, and engraved by H. 

 Aiken. The artist sometimes engraved his own 

 pictures, but with the exception of two etchings 

 made from sketches by " Wildrake " ("Catching a 

 Tartar," or "The Death of the Stag" and "The 

 Meet of the Owl Hounds," reproduced in the 

 New Sporting Magazine of 1842) these appear 



