44 TALES AND TRAITS OF SPORTING LIFE, 



MODERN HUNTING SONG. 



• Bright clianticleer proclaims the morn"- 



By which he means to say 

 That those who do as their fathers did 



Will hunt h}" hreak o'day — 

 But we don't do as our fathers did, 



But quite the other way. 



At early dawn they met the morn/' 

 As we learn from another chime ; 



And to get on the drag' of the hold reyna 

 Was what they voted prime — 



But we look for a little more than that, 

 All in the present time. 



With many a cut at the cold sirloin, 



And a pull at the mig-htiest ale. 

 They hardened their hearts for the good ding-dong- 



Though their doings would hardly pale 

 The shy-fed, soda-watering 3'outh, 



Who now o'er a country sail. 



