. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. Tom Moody— Poor Jack— Honest Ben ;I drink the old wine, and I hear the old call— * Clean glasses, fresh bottles, and vi2)es for us all. CHAPTER XII. SUCCESS OF THE SONG. Dibdins Song—Dibdin and the Squire good fellows well met—Moody a Character after Dibdins own heart—The SquiresGift—Incledon—The Shropshire Fox-hunters on the Stage atDrury Lane. The reader will have perceived that George Foresterand Charles Dibdin were good fellows well met, andthat no two men were ever better fitted to appreciateeach other. Like the popular monarch of the t
. Old sports and sportsmen : or, The Willey country. Tom Moody— Poor Jack— Honest Ben ;I drink the old wine, and I hear the old call— * Clean glasses, fresh bottles, and vi2)es for us all. CHAPTER XII. SUCCESS OF THE SONG. Dibdins Song—Dibdin and the Squire good fellows well met—Moody a Character after Dibdins own heart—The SquiresGift—Incledon—The Shropshire Fox-hunters on the Stage atDrury Lane. The reader will have perceived that George Foresterand Charles Dibdin were good fellows well met, andthat no two men were ever better fitted to appreciateeach other. Like the popular monarch of the time,each prided himself upon being a Briton; eachadmired every new distinguishing trait of nationality,and gloried in any special development of nationalpluck and daring. No one more than Mr. Foresterwas ready to endorse that charming bit of historyDibdin gave of his native land in his song of Thesnug little Island, or would join more heartily inthe chorus :— Search the globe round, none can be foundSo happy as this little SUCCESS or THE SONG. 141 No one could have done its geograpliy or havepainted the features of its inhabitants in fewer wordsor stronger colours. We use the word strongerrather than brighter, remembering that Dibdindrew his heroes redolent of tar, of rum, and had the knack of seizing upon broad nationalcharacteristics, and, like a true artist, of bringingthem prominently into the foreground by means ofsuch simple accessories as seemed to give them forceand effect. In the Willey whipper-in Dibdin found the sameunsophisticated bit of primitive nature cropping upwhich he so successfully brought out in his portraitsof salt-water heroes; he found the same spirit dif-ferently manifested; for had Moody served in thecock-pit, the gun-room, on deck, or at the windlass,he would have been a * Ben Backstay ^ or a PoorJack—from that singleness of aim and daringwhich actuated him. How clearly Dibdin set forththis sentiment in that sta
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