214 FIELD AND FERN. 



ffiHAFSlE Till 



"Charley, rest! thy warfare's o'er, 



You died the death, and bore the breaking ; 

 Dream of chicken poults no more. 



Hunting-day, nor bugle waktug ! 

 In the gorse no more you'll lie, 



No more you'll roam the fields of barley ; 

 John Musters' horn and Ringwood's ciy 



No more shall wake thee, gentle Charley ! 



Aanesley, Oct., 1843. The late R. B. Davis. 



Will Williamson's Early History — His Opinion of a few Old Sportsmen — 

 Tke Buccleucli Hounds — Opening-iip the St. Mary's Loch Country — 

 The Buccleuch Country — Will's Best Horses — A "Walk through the 

 BQC-cleuch Stables — Monltau, Wyndliam, Paymaster, Marotto, and 

 Star — The Great Marlfield day — The Moor and his Stable Comi-ades 

 — T?ie Brood Mares — "Will Shore and the Hounds. 



IIell Williamson had never joined " those 

 "^ rare fellows^^ at the grey dawn_, but' he had 

 fraternized with them at other times, and the above 

 was his professional opinion. We found him at St. 

 BoswelFs in his old spot by the kennels, and still 

 liearty at 82, and often riding fourteen miles to see a 

 good draw in the Kelso country. He gave up the 

 horn in 1862, when he had completed his sixtieth 

 season with hounds, and during all his huntsman life 

 iie had only varied from nine-stone-seven to nine- 



