32 THE TEINITY FOOT BEAGLES 



Oh ! Haste to that yell, 



Which is Pussy's death-knell, 

 E'er the hounds begin breaking her up ; 



When the trophies are got 



AVe soon give the whole lot 

 To the pack — and a bit to each pup. 

 Well there ! It has been my endeavour 

 To show that our beagles are clever. 



And I think that the most 



Of you'll join in the toast 

 Of " The Trinity Beagles for ever ! " 



Chorus 



Then Hurrah for the Trinity Beagles, 

 They're as swift and as clever as eagles ; 



And a man must run hard 



If he'd not be debarred 

 Seeing " Pussy " rolled o'er by the Beagles. 



Hugh S. Gladstone. 



From the literary standpoint better work has no doubt been 

 done. Many of the Ingoldsby Legends, for example, show greater 

 ingenuity in rhythm and originality in rhyme, and the swiftness 

 of the eagle is a standard for comparison warranted by Scripture 

 itself, but I doubt if ever any one would have employed the imperial 

 bird as a model of cleverness for any man or beast except a beagle, 

 with which "eagle," of course, rhymes perfectly. Verses have also 

 been written containing more of the essence of poetry. However, 

 it is a vivid presentment of a good run, it is full of the zest of 

 sport, and it has genuine " local colour." 



" The small crowded street," for example, is Bridge Street, and no 

 other in the world,^ and one can see the brake threading its way 



' The Lane is also small. But it is aloof" and leisurely, and never thronged. Odi 

 profanum vulyas et arceo, said Horace, and had lie gone to Cambridge instead of 

 Athens would have loved and sung of Jesus Lane. 



