THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN 



shortened. We have noAv l)ut few twelve-mile, and no fourteen- 

 mile stao-es. I have heard my father say that, when he went to 

 Rugby School, there was a team on the Coventry and London 

 road, called " The twenty milers." They went from the " Blue 

 Boar," on Dunsmore Heath, to the " Black Lion," at Towcester 

 — just twenty miles.' 



Houghton. — ' The " Blue Boar " and the " Black Lion " ! who 

 ever heard of either, except in the imagination of a madman ? ' 



Jack Webber. — ' We may as well ask, who ever saw a wldte lion 

 oi- a unicorn, the latter one of the supporters of our crown. For 

 my part I never could find out any one who could tell me what 

 is meant by the word unicorn. It cannot be an animal with one 

 horn, because we read in scripture of the horns of the unicorn.' 



Houghton. — ' I believe it to have been a kind of rhinoceros, 

 whose history is not given us in scripture, but mentioned by 

 Moses, as having the strength of God ; or an animal called the 

 reem, which is spoken of by Job as an unmanageable animal, 

 of great strength, but one which refused to bend its neck to 

 the yoke.' 



Jack Webber. — ' No bad type of John Bull, we must allow ; 

 and may the gods preserve me from a unicorn team, which I 

 once drove for three months. But as we call a one-eyed horse, 

 " single-peeper," should not a one-horned rhinoceros be called, 

 monoceros ? ' 



Frank Raby. — ' You are becoming facetious, Jack ; suppose 

 you give us another song.' 



Jack Webber. — ' With all my heart ; and as you have been 

 speaking of Moses, I will give you one about Adam : — 



PARODY ON THE 'OLD ENGLISHMAN.' 



" Old Adam was the lirst-borii man, as eveiybody knows — 

 He never paid a tailor's lull, because lie wore no clothes ; 

 Nor line kid gloves upon his hands, as you may well suppose, 

 Nor dandy collar round his neck, nor shoes to hide his toes. 



Chorus: — For Adam was a gentleman, one of the olden time. 



He neither rent nor taxes paid, nor (htii.-; came to his door, 



For he had enough of meat and drink, and some left for the poor ; 



For the poor were not then born, nor either were the great. 



No rogues or thieves had he to fear, so he never lock'd his gate. 



For Adam, etc. 

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