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absolute sway now ; and it may be that " the voices 

 of the night," cheered on by that spectral sportsman, 

 on Golumpus or Memnon, may be heard at All 

 Hallows Tide, busy among the hazels of Tubney 

 Wood, or running the old line of the Bablock Hythe 

 day. 



RAMBLE THE SECOND. 



" Held by Diana in due estimation, 

 Bedeck with a gorse flower the goddess's shrine ; 

 Throughout the wide range of this blooming creation. 

 It has but one rival, and that one the vine. 

 Pluck me then, Bacchus, a cluster, and squeezing it. 

 Pour the red juice till the goblet o'erflows ; 

 Then, in the joy of my heart, will I seizing it, 

 Drink to the land where this Evergreen grows." 



THE Heythrop began, in 1835, with j^^, Hills. 

 Jem Hills, who came there from 

 Lord Ducie's, and twenty-five couples, principally 

 Dorimants and Nectars, from Badminton. Jem had 

 been for a considerable time with Colonel Wyndham 

 in Sussex, and many legends of him still linger about 

 Petworth, where he was in for a goodly amount of 

 riding of the Gohanna and Grey Skim hunters. He 

 played in the Sussex eleven for eight seasons, while 

 Bainbridge and Lillywhite flourished, and was se- 

 lected, from his talented batting, to do battle for 300/. 

 against Hampshire, in Sir John Cope's Park. Amid 

 these feats with the willow, he nourished and brought 

 up five cubs from a tea-pot, and he was saddled with 

 a family of six more, in a most remarkable way. 

 They had run a heavy vixen in a small cover, near 

 Eyfold, round and round for nearly an hour and five 

 minutes, till Jem got wearied out, and stationed him- 

 self in a ditch to head her. Confiding in his natural 

 gallantry, she jumped into his arms, and he arrived 

 at the kennels with her on the pommel of his saddle. 



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