A Good Sportsman. 193 



to '' Quis " and called it " Lincoln Green," 

 from which I would like to take some short 

 extracts. Poor Harry Bolton, a great friend 

 of mine and my father's, was placed 

 "nowhere" by "Quis," so this was the 

 governor's reply : — 



*' Oh Harry, my worthy, Oh who has disgraced you, 

 And in Shelton Gorse Run so shamefully placed you, 

 And mixed you so up with the Blacks and those varlets 

 Who only come out to appear in their scarlets 1 

 Stick, stick, my fine fellow, stick close to your order, 

 And never be mixed with such muffs on a border. 

 You know with what contempt we eyed them at 



Bromham, 

 When you came alongside and slipped away from 'em ; 

 How we laughed in our sleeves when you went at the 



brook. 

 To think 'ere they took it how ghastly they'd Ipok ; 

 How each coat on their back would blush redder and 



deeper 

 To find that it only encompassed a creeper. 

 Yet no mention is made of those who are gone 

 To that awful tribunal whence none can return ; 

 Who I've seen in my youth go so straight at their fences 

 That would frighten the present pinks out of their 



senses." 



