Hunting Songs (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...away, Old Quidnunc sat quoting The Times on his Grey, How Lord Derby was wrong, and Lord Aberdeen right, And the hounds, ere he finish'd, were clean out of sight." We are all of us tailors in turn. III. Says one," When we started o'er fallow and grass, I was close at the tail of the hounds, but, alas We came down to a drain in that black-bottom'd fen, If I had but been on my brook-jumper--O, then "--We are all of us tailors in turn. IV. "Dismounting," says one, " at a gate that was fast, The crowd, pushing through, knock'd me down as it it pass'd; My horse seized the moment to take his own fling, Who'll again do, out hunting, a good-natured thing " We are all of us tailors in turn. v. "Down the lane went I merrily sailing along, Till I found," says another, " my course was all wrong; I thought that his line toward the breeding-earth lay, But he went, I've heard since, just the opposite way." We are all of us tailors in turn. VI. From the wine-cup o'er night some were sorry and sick, Some skirted, some craned, and some rode for a nick; Like whales, in the water some flounder'd about, Thrown off and thrown in, they were also thrown out. We are all of us tailors in turn. VII. "You will find in the field a whole ton of lost shoes."--A credulous blacksmith, believing the news, Thought his fortune were made if he walk'd o'er the ground;--He lost a day's work, but he ne'er a shoe found We are all of us tailors in turn. VIII. What deeds would one hero have done on his Grey, Who was nowhere at all on his Chestnut to-day All join in the laugh when a braggart is beat, And that jest is loved best which is aim'd at conceit. We are all of us tailors in turn. IX. Good fellows there are, unpretending and f...