. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . joungermen: and he has gone out of the world with the affection and 432 THE CREAM OF LEICESTERSHIRE. [Seasok regret of every one in Leicestershire. Surely on his tombmight be written the epitaph, as on that of John Bell ofBrackenbury : Gif thou best a better man in thy time than I was in mine,Tak this stane off my wame and lay it upon THK LATE EAllL OF WILTOX. CONCLUSION. Once more the changed years turning wheel returnsAnd as a girl sails bala
. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . joungermen: and he has gone out of the world with the affection and 432 THE CREAM OF LEICESTERSHIRE. [Seasok regret of every one in Leicestershire. Surely on his tombmight be written the epitaph, as on that of John Bell ofBrackenbury : Gif thou best a better man in thy time than I was in mine,Tak this stane off my wame and lay it upon THK LATE EAllL OF WILTOX. CONCLUSION. Once more the changed years turning wheel returnsAnd as a girl sails balanced in the wind,And now before and now again behindStoops as it swoops, with cheek that laughs and burns ;So Spring comes merry towards me now, but earnsNo answeiing smile from me, Avhose life is twinedWith the dead boughs that Winter still must bind,And whom to-day the Spring no more concerns. Apkil Sth, above congenial sentiment of Dante Eosetti hits off thepresent situation of the hunting man with painful exactness. 1881-82.] C0XCLUS10N-. 433 No one is so insatiable, no one is so devoted to his choseiitaste, and no one clings so absorbingly to it, as lie who setsthe chase on^ a pinnacle above all other pursuits in life. Nowonder, then, he views the arrival of spring as an absolutecalamit}, none the less mournful that it is unavertable. Tover} many men (though few of them would, i)erliaps, confess■it) the forthcoming months present an uneventful blank, during-,w
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