80 HOUND AND HORN. 



the old man was literally a science, and required a deal 

 of study. It was not a thing of the moment, and to be 

 forgotten as soon as the excitement of the run was over. 

 And I have frequently heard him say, in my evening 

 sittings with him by his fireside, and in going over 

 what to many would have been the " long-forgotten 

 past," " Oh ! times and times I've seen, arter I've been 

 a-bed, where I lost a fox." 



