



TIIE OLD SORT. 



THE OLD SORT. 



I'll give you a sportsman, a man, and a friend, 



A nailer to handle the horn ; 

 A man one was always prepared to defend, 

 Whose friendship was strong, and endured to the end ; 



A truer man never was born. 



A picture he was, as he sat on his horse : 



His features were handsome and strong ; 

 His bushy grey eyebrows and hair added force 

 To his face, while his eye looked on life and its course 

 With a keenness both lasting and long. 



