. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. fanciers, and wbo were accustomed to steal forth asthe moon rose above the horizon, and intercept himas he left bis long winding excavation among tberocks, in order to make sport for them at theirannual CHAPTER TV. THE WREKIN FOREST AND THE FORESTERS. The Wrekin Forest—Hermit of Mount St. Gilbert—Poachers uponthe Kings Preserves—Extent of the Forest—Haye of Well-ington—Kobert Forester—Perquisites—Hunting Matches—Singular Grant to John Forester—Sir Walter Scotts TonyFoster a Member of the Shropshire Forester Family—Anthony Foster Lord
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. fanciers, and wbo were accustomed to steal forth asthe moon rose above the horizon, and intercept himas he left bis long winding excavation among tberocks, in order to make sport for them at theirannual CHAPTER TV. THE WREKIN FOREST AND THE FORESTERS. The Wrekin Forest—Hermit of Mount St. Gilbert—Poachers uponthe Kings Preserves—Extent of the Forest—Haye of Well-ington—Kobert Forester—Perquisites—Hunting Matches—Singular Grant to John Forester—Sir Walter Scotts TonyFoster a Member of the Shropshire Forester Family—Anthony Foster Lord of the Manor of Little Wenlock— THE WREKIN EOREST. 55 The Foresters of Sutton and Bridgnortli—Anthony Fosteraltogether a different Character from what Sir Walter Scottrepresents him. * I am clad in youthful green, I other colours scorn,My silken bauldrick bears my bugle or my horn,Which, setting to my lips, I wind so loud and shrill,As makes the echoes shout from every neighbouring hill;My dog-hook at my belt, to which my thong is tied,My sheaf of arrows by, my wood-knife by my side,My cross-bow in my hand, my gaffle on my rack,To bend it when I please, or if T list to slack ;My hound then in my thong, I, by the woodmans
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