Tlie " Good-hye" Day, 183 



Wliatever man can do, Tom Smith has 

 done ; and that he has given general satisfac- 

 tion who could deny, on witnessing his last 

 brilliant farewell field ? That he has met 

 with one or two cavillers, is no less true ; for 

 hoAv difficult is it to please '^ all the world and 

 his wife to boot I" and what saith the poet on 

 the opinion of the multitude is most correct : 



" He that depends 

 Upon your favours swims with fins of lead, 

 And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? 

 With every minute you do change a mind ; 

 And call him noble that was now your hate — 

 Him vile, that was your garland." 



Too often in the hunting-field do we find 

 this precept applicable to a few, with whom 

 one unfavourable season will efiace the recol- 

 lections of previous umivalled sport. The 

 veteran's proud spirit could ill brook the cavils 

 even of those few, who may have had some 

 imaginary cause of discontent; wherefore he 

 resigned the onerous post he had been solicited 

 to occupy — which he had so ably filled : and 



