^Nimrod ' 



a celebrated hunter of the late King's, and gallantly did he 



put him along. It too often happens, however, on such 



occasions, when sport is most anxiously desired for the 



amusement of some distinguished individual, that the game 



runs short, or the scent lies faintly. Such was a good 



deal the case in this instance, although there was running 



enough to show that Miguel would have stopped at 



nothing that might have come in his way to oppose his 



being with the hounds. Of his qualities as a sportsman 



there was little opportunity of judging, but he certainly 



showed himself to be a horseman of a superior caste : 



insomuch that those who observed him were little 



astonished with the accounts of his personal activity 



in the first weeks after his return to Portugal : he, at 



that crisis, is said to have ridden six hundred miles in 



six successive days, a feat which those who have travelled 



on Portuguese roads will appreciate. So much for, we 



fear, one of the last persons to whom anybody would 



think of applying Wordsworth's eulogium on ' the Shepherd 



Lord ' :— 



' In him the savage virtue of the chace, 

 Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts, were dead.' 



It is a hackneyed enough remark, that both ancient and 

 modern writers make sad work of it when they attempt a 

 description of heaven. To describe a run with foxhounds 

 is not a much easier task ; but to make the attempt with 

 any other county than Leicestershire in our eye, would be 

 giving a chance away. Let us then suppose ourselves to 



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