Up in the Morning Early. 



sportsmen should have sport. But nowadays my yeoman 

 neighbours tell me they are becoming more and more 

 rare ; and that lawyers and corndealers, et hoc genus 

 omne, who try to hunt and go out shooting, should for 

 most part be prosecuted by the Society for the Pre- 

 vention of Cruelty to Animals. The former are even 

 cruel to their horses, which they cannot manage ; the 



latter seldom hit, and when they do, they generally 

 only maim. Very little humanity would suggest a 

 more merciful mode — the cry of a hare in its extremity 

 is exactly like the cry of a child. 



The early morning's walk was not to end entirely with- 

 out incident. Just after I had stepped over a gate going 

 into a field not far from my house, to my surprise I 



