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Old age laments 

 His vigour spent ; the tall, plump, brawny youth 

 Curses his cumbrous bulk, and envies now 

 The short pigmean race, he whilom kenn'd, 

 With proud insulting leer. A chosen few 

 Alone the sport enjoy, nor droop beneath 

 Their pleasing toils," 



Beckford. 



The season is over! and never in the recollection of the 

 oldest sportsraen has it been so open, and have our local pack 

 had so many good runs; and although the country has ridden 

 awfully heavy, there have been comparatively few casualties 

 to men and horses. With the exception of a serious accident 

 to a lady's favourite horse, and the breaking of Mr. M. T. 

 Fozier's collar-bone (Mr. Fozier, I am happy to say, is going 

 on all right), no other serious accidents have occurred. 

 Colonel Buchanan has been out fifty-eight days, and has killed 

 22|- brace of foxes, stopped by frost two days, three blank days, 

 and one day — the last of the season — was so stormy. Major 

 Hazelrigg, of the 21st Kegiment, who keeps a capital pack of 

 beagles, has shown some excellent sport, and has killed 

 eighteen hares, having had one blank day. I think he was 

 out thirty-one times. Mr. J. Addie, who also keeps a private 

 pack and hunts them himself (as also does the Major), has 

 had a capital season, and killed fifteen hares. Mr. Ewen, of 

 Ewenfield, who is Master of the Ayrshire Harriers, has had 

 good sport, and wound up the season with a paper hunt, 

 which came off at the old country near the Wallace Monu- 

 ment, over a stifiish course. There was the usual jealousy at 

 starting, some of the Aryshire men trying hard for a start. 

 Mr. Dykes made the running on old Sunbeam, and was in 

 the front till passing Craigie Castle, closely followed by 

 Mr. C. Cunninghame, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. Cockburn, with 

 Mr. R Oswald, Mr. W. Baird, and Captain W. Middleton 

 not far off waiting their time. Here at a fence, with a 

 ditch on the take off, Mr. Dykes and Mr. Cunning- 

 hame came to grief, and Mr. Wallace took the lead, 

 which he kept till the Craigie Road was crossed, the next 



