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" Yolx, at him!" cries the Huntsman: "hold hard!" for 



there he breaks ; 

 And straight across the open now his country he takes : 

 He's fairly gone, so now we'll give a rattling " Tally-ho ! " 

 And now we're right in the foremost flight like jolly bricks 



to go. 



And now for twenty minutes we have gone this glorious burst, 

 The pace begins to tell on those who yet have gone the first. 

 " A check ! " we take a pull, and give our horses time to blow ; 

 'Twill set them right in the foremost flight again like ti'umps 

 to go. 



" Hark, Ranter, hark ! " the Huntsman cries : they hit him 



off again ; 

 A sheet would cover all the pack now racing o'er the plain. 

 *' A view !" it is the hunted fox I know by yonder crow. 

 For it's her delight in the foremost flight with a sinking one 



to go. 



To reach yon distant covert now in vain game Keynard tries. 

 Old Venom runs in to him, and he, gamely fighting, dies. 

 " Who- whoop ! " now cries the Huntsman, Avho so late cried 



"Tally-ho!" 

 'Tis pure delight in the foremost flight in a run like this to go. 



Here's to fox-hunting and fox-hunters, and may we never 



trace 

 The man within old England's shores who would put down 



the Chase ! 

 For such a man at once I scan as British Sportsmen's foe. 

 Who still delight in the foremost flight like bricks and trumps 



to go. 



Harry Hie'over. 



