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" Short home " to be brought we all should desire, 

 Could we manage the trick like the Enderby* squire. 



Wild Shelley,t at starting all ears and all eyes, 

 Who to get a good start all experiment tries, 

 Yet contrived it so ill, as to throw out poor Gipsy, J 

 Whom he rattled along as if he'd been tipsy, 

 To catch them again ; but, though famous for speed, 

 She never could touch § them, much less get a lead, 

 So dishearten'd, disjointed, and beat, home he swings, 

 Not much unlike a fiddler hung upon strings. 



An H. H.|l who in Leicestershire never had been, 

 So of course such a tickler ne'er could have seen, 

 Just to see them throw off, on a raw horse was mounted, 

 Who a hound had ne'er seen, nor a fence had confronted. 

 But they found in such style, and went off at such score, 

 That be could not resist the attempt to see more : 

 So with scrambling, and dashing, and one rattling fall. 

 He saw all the fun, up to Stretton's white Hall. 

 There they anchor'd, in plight not a little distressing — 

 The horse being raw, he of course got a dressing. 

 That wonderful mare of Vanueck's, who till now 

 By no chance ever tired, was taken in tow : 

 And what's worse, she gave Van such a devilish jog 

 In the face with her head, plunging out of a bog, 

 That with eye black as ink, or as Edward's famed Prince, 

 Half blind has he been, and quite deaf ever since. 

 But let that not mortify thee, Shacabac ; TI 

 She only was blown, and came home a rare hack. 



There Craven too stopp'd, whose misfortune, not fault, 

 His mare unaccountably vex'd with string-halt ; 

 And when she had ceased thus spasmodic to prance, 

 Her mouth 'gan to twitch with St. Vitus's dance. 

 But how shall described be the fate of Rose Price, 

 Whose fav'rite white gelding convey'd him so nice 



• Where Mr. Loraine Smith lives. t Usually very grave. 



t Sir John Shelley's mare. § Melton dialect for " overtake." 



I These initials may serve either for Hampshire hog or Hampshire Hunt. 

 f A name taken from Blue Beard, and given to Mr. Veumeck by his Melton 

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