Savory. 



CHAPTER YIII. 



THE WILLEY LONG RUNS. 



The Willey Long Eons — Dibdin's Fifty Miles no Figure of Speech 

 — From the Clee Hills to the Wrekin — The Squire's Breakfast 

 — Phoebe Higgs — Doggrel Ditties — Old Tinker — Moody's 

 Horse falls Dead — Eun by Moonlight. 



" Ye that remember well old Savory's call, 

 With pleasure view'd her, as she pleased you all ; 

 In distant countries still her fame resounds, 

 The huntsmen's glory and the pride of hounds." 

 1773. 



The portrait at the head of this chapter is from a 

 carefully drawn copy of a painting at Willey of a 



