THE BUILDERS OF BELVOIR 



others. Of 21 couples, i8| were up. Traveller and Helen 

 the stoutest. Farthest point, 18 miles. Stopped 14 miles 

 from find. Time, 3 hours. Messrs. Forester, Berkeley 

 Craven, and Vansittart ; the latter had not been with hounds. 

 The view is that there was no change. Never entered any- 

 covert except Sir John Thorold's plantation. The pace was 

 extraordinary. 



" ' Semper honos, nomenque suum laudesque manebunt' " 



A Hunting Song. 



Written in comtnetnoration of a most famous fox-chase rten by the 

 Duke of Rutland's hounds, December loth, 1805. 



I. 

 Ye sportsmen, attend to my song, 



Which to please you I hope will not fail : 

 It's a fox-chase full three hours long. 



And was run over Belvoir's sweet Vale. 

 'Twas Tuesday, the loth of December, 



The Uuke ^ fixed at Waltham to meet. 

 But the frost was so hard, I remember, 



The horses could scarce keep their feet. 



2. 

 We waited awhile for the weather, 



In hopes of a gleam of the sun, 

 When away we all trotted together, 



Shaw ^ swearing he'd show us a run. 

 The Meltonians came late in the morn. 



Yet the sport they have always in mind. 

 And o'ertook us at Jericho Thorn, 



Except Lloyd, who was loitering behind. 



3- 

 The hounds had not been there a minute. 



When the Duke cried, " Hark, holloa, away ! " 

 Not a hound was then left behind in it. 



You'd swear they would show him some play. 

 The hard riders jumped off in a crack, 



Not one of them minding their neck, 

 And for Belvoir were running him back 



When Tovt S^niih^ rode the hounds to a check. 



' The fifth Duke. ^ Belvoir huntsman, 1805-16. ^ T. Assheton Smith. 



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