86 TALES AND TRAITS OF SPORTING LIFE. 



But weatlier a squall, and keep up the ball ; 

 Attend to my lay, and mind what I say. 

 As to making your play for more than a day, 

 And being- able to pay your share and your way. 

 If twice out a week with the pack within hail, 



And sport in proportion supposed to be shown, 

 Finds you still rather prone to gTumble and rail, 



And, like ISelson, you want '^a Gazette of your ownj" 

 With subscriptions colkctedy 

 And kennels erected, 

 With a nerve to ride screws, 

 " On the fast and the loose," 

 Andjpeople that really come out for the fun ; 

 With lodging's g-ot cheap. 

 Just to breakfast and sleep ; 

 Then a heart for your sport, 

 And on something* this sort 

 Of plan the thing has been, and is to he, done. 



And now, as the poet sig'hs adieu, 

 Remember well his counsel true, 

 And with Actceon's fate in view, 

 // you keep hounds— let hounds heep you. 



